Analytic thinking: Do you feel like it?

Mind and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-105

  Thompson, Valerie ^a   Morsanyi, Kinga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Analytic thinking; Decision making; Dual process theories; Feeling of rightness; Fluency heuristic; Intuition; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861773353     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-012-0100-6     Document Type: Article

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