Overcoming Intuition: Metacognitive Difficulty Activates Analytic Reasoning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 569-576

  Alter, Adam L ^a   Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^b   Epley, Nicholas ^c   Eyre, Rebecca N ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disfluency; dual system processing; fluency; judgment; reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTUITION; PILOT STUDY;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 36248949617     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.569     Document Type: Article

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