Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience
and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by …

We propose that human reasoning relies on an inherence heuristic, an implicit cognitive
process that leads people to explain observed patterns (eg, girls wear pink) predominantly …

We studied developmental trends in 5 important reasoning tasks that are critical components
of the operational definition of rational thinking. The tasks measured denominator neglect …

While individual differences in the willingness and ability to engage analytic processing
have long informed research in reasoning and decision making, the implications of such …

The dual-process model of moral judgment postulates that utilitarian responses to moral
dilemmas (eg, accepting to kill one to save five) are demanding of cognitive resources. Here …

Background When asked to solve mathematical problems, some people experience anxiety
and threat, which can lead to impaired mathematical performance (Curr Dir Psychol Sci 11 …

What role, if any, does consciousness of our reasons for acting play in settling whether we
may justifiably be held responsible for our actions? Most philosophers and ordinary people …

The inherence heuristic is a basic cognitive process that supplies quick-and-easy answers
to what are, in reality, incredibly complex questions about why the broad patterns of the …

The presentation of a Bayesian inference problem in terms of natural frequencies rather than
probabilities has been shown to enhance performance. The effect of individual differences in …

Intuitions are commonly defined in terms of their supposed characteristics, for example, fast,
implicit, parallel, and automatic. In this chapter, I argue that such an approach fails to provide …