Matching bias on the selection task: It's fast and feels good

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 431-452

  Thompson, Valerie A ^a   Evans, Jonathan St B T ^b   Campbell, Jamie I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic thinking; Dual process theories; Feeling of rightness; Intuition; Metacognition; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888011381     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2013.820220     Document Type: Article

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