I present a critical discussion of dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making
with particular attention to the nature and role of Type 2 processes. The original theory …

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 …

Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which
inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological …

Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers,
its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical …

Popular dual-process models of thinking have long conceived intuition and deliberation as
two qualitatively different processes. Single-process-model proponents claim that the …

Influential dual process models of human thinking posit that reasoners typically produce a
fast, intuitive heuristic (ie, Type-1) response which might subsequently be overridden and …

We investigated how perceived risk and protective behaviors changed as the coronavirus
epidemic progressed. A longitudinal sample of 538 people responded to a COVID-19 risk …

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 …