Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to processing
mechanisms of low computational expense. Such a tendency leads to suboptimal outcomes …

Kritische Lebensereignisse gehören zum Erfahrungshorizont fast aller Menschen. Es gilt zu
präzisieren, was Ereignisse als kritisch ausweist und welchen Platz sie jeweils im Leben …

Young children learn selectively from reliable rather than unreliable models. Yet the
question of what cognitive processes this early selectivity builds on remains unanswered …

Persuasion is a foundational topic within psychology, in which researchers have long
investigated effective versus ineffective means to change other people's minds. Yet little is …

There is much evidence that high-capacity reasoners perform better on a variety of
reasoning tasks (Stanovich, 1999), a phenomenon that is normally attributed to differences …

Single-process accounts of reasoning propose that the same cognitive mechanisms
underlie inductive and deductive inferences. In contrast, dual-process accounts propose that …

Purpose Sensory perception is an important factor to understand and effectively appeal to
consumers. As consumers process information consciously and subconsciously, both …

The ability to inhibit common and dominant paths of solutions to a problem seems to be a
critical process for generating creative ideas. However, previous behavioral studies have not …

Higher-order thinking abilities such as abstract reasoning and meaningful school learning
occur sequentially. The fulfillment of these tasks demands that people activate and use all of …

This study aimed to examine the relative effectiveness of using an animation versus static
pictures in terms of supporting the learning of genetics. To provide a methodologically sound …