Disfluency prompts analytic thinking-But not always greater accuracy: Response to Thompson et al. (2013)

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 252-255

  Alter, Adam L ^a   Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^b   Epley, Nicholas ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical thinking; Disfluency; Dual system processing; Fluency; Heuristics; Metacognition; System 1 processing; System 2 processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL THINKING; ANSWER FLUENCY; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DISFLUENCY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTUITION; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; THINKING;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 84892480578     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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