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Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning.
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Humans appear to reason using two processing styles: System 1 processes that are quick, intuitive, and effortless and System 2 processes that are slow, analytical, and deliberate that occasionally correct the output of System 1. Four experiments suggest that System 2 processes are activated by metacognitive experiences of difficulty or disfluency during the process of reasoning. Incidental experiences of difficulty or disfluency--receiving information in a degraded font (Experiments 1 and 4), in difficult-to-read lettering (Experiment 2), or while furrowing one's brow (Experiment 3)--reduced the impact of heuristics and defaults in judgment (Experiments 1 and 3), reduced reliance on peripheral cues in persuasion (Experiment 2), and improved syllogistic reasoning (Experiment 4). Metacognitive experiences of difficulty or disfluency appear to serve as an alarm that activates analytic forms of reasoning that assess and sometimes correct the output of more intuitive forms of reasoning.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Alter, A. L., Oppenheimer, D. M., Epley, N., & Eyre, R. N.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 136
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 569-576
- ISSN
- 0096-3445 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2222
- OpenAlex
- W2138921773
- Cited by
- 844
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 17.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (051811; SES0241544)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Keywords
- metacognition, analytical thinking, intuitive thinking, heuristics, syllogistic reasoning, persuasion, peripheral cues, cognitive effort, dual-process theory
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Decision Making, Humans, Judgment, Pilot Projects, Intuition
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