Are we good at detecting conflict during reasoning?

Cognition
Gordon PennycookDerek J Koehler

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys and Glumicic (2008) demonstrated that participants reason longer about problems that are characterized by conflict (as opposed to agreement) between stereotypical personality descriptions and base-rate probabilities of group membership. However, this finding comes from problems involving probabilities much more extreme than those used in traditional studies of base-rate neglect. To test the degree to which these findings depend on such extreme probabilities, we varied base-rate probabilities over five experiments and compared participants' response time for conflict problems with non-conflict problems. Longer response times for stereotypical responses to conflict versus non-conflict problems were found only in the presence of extreme probabilities. Our results suggest that humans may not be consistently efficient at detecting conflicts during reasoning.

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May 31, 2002·Memory & Cognition·Jonathan St B T EvansNicholas Perham
Jul 17, 2007·Cognition·Wim De Neys, Tamara Glumicic
Oct 30, 2007·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Aron K Barbey, Steven A Sloman
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Mar 20, 2012·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Gordon Pennycook, Valerie A Thompson
Jan 1, 2012·Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science·Wim De Neys

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Citations

Jun 21, 2013·Memory & Cognition·Gordon PennycookJonathan A Fugelsang
Mar 16, 2013·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Wim De Neys, Jean-François Bonnefon
Jan 2, 2016·Acta Psychologica·Eric D JohnsonWim De Neys
Jun 21, 2015·Cognitive Psychology·Gordon PennycookDerek J Koehler
Apr 24, 2016·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Mike Oaksford, Simon Hall
Apr 27, 2016·Memory & Cognition·Mário B FerreiraMax Ihmels
Aug 24, 2016·Frontiers in Psychology·Gordon PennycookValerie A Thompson
Apr 22, 2017·Acta Psychologica·Michał Białek
Apr 6, 2017·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·Darren FreyWim De Neys
Feb 13, 2018·Frontiers in Psychology·André Mata, Mário B Ferreira
May 19, 2020·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·André Mata
Feb 23, 2017·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Gordon PennycookJonathan A Fugelsang
Dec 14, 2018·Psychologica Belgica·Janie BrissonWim De Neys
Apr 9, 2019·Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior·Katell MevelWim De Neys

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