Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking

W De Neys - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
Human reasoning is often conceived as an interplay between a more intuitive and deliberate
thought process. In the last 50 years, influential fast-and-slow dual-process models that …

Advancing the rationality debate

KE Stanovich, RF West - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000 - cambridge.org
In this response, we clarify several misunderstandings of the understanding/acceptance
principle and defend our specific operationalization of that principle. We reiterate the …

Subtracting “ought” from “is”: Descriptivism versus normativism in the study of human thinking

S Elqayam, JSBT Evans - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011 - cambridge.org
We propose a critique of normativism, defined as the idea that human thinking reflects a
normative system against which it should be measured and judged. We analyze the …

Précis of simple heuristics that make us smart

PM Todd, G Gigerenzer - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000 - cambridge.org
How can anyone be rational in a world where knowledge is limited, time is pressing, and
deep thought is often an unattainable luxury? Traditional models of unbounded rationality …

Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources

F Lieder, TL Griffiths - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Conviction narrative theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

SGB Johnson, A Bilovich, D Tuckett - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
Conviction Narrative Theory (CNT) is a theory of choice under radical uncertainty–situations
where outcomes cannot be enumerated and probabilities cannot be assigned. Whereas …

Trading spaces: Computation, representation, and the limits of uninformed learning

A Clark, C Thornton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

A Clark - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Logic, fast and slow: Advances in dual-process theorizing

W De Neys, G Pennycook - Current directions in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies on human reasoning have long established that intuitions can bias inference and
lead to violations of logical norms. Popular dual-process models, which characterize …

Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review

BR Newell, DR Shanks - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …