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 …

Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Although human thinking is often biased, some individuals are less susceptible to biases
than others. These individual differences have been at the forefront of thinking research for …

Much research in cognitive psychology has focused on the tendency to conserve limited
cognitive resources. The CRT is the predominant measure of such miserly information …

In my personal chapter contribution I present the basic dual process model that I believe to
be supported by my own empirical findings and the work of many of the contributors to this …

The distinction between intuitive and analytic thinking is common in psychology. However,
while often being quite clear on the characteristics of the two processes ('Type 1'processes …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

With the advent of Smartphone technology, access to the internet and its associated
knowledge base is at one's fingertips. What consequences does this have for human …

Abstract The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is thought to correlate with measures of
utilitarian moral judgment because it measures system-2 correction of an initial intuitive …