Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory

H Mercier, D Sperber - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2011 - cambridge.org
Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions.
However, much evidence shows that reasoning often leads to epistemic distortions and poor …

Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review

BR Newell, DR Shanks - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …

Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and decision making

A Glöckner, C Witteman - Thinking & Reasoning, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Intuitive-automatic processes are crucial for making judgements and decisions. The
fascinating complexity of these processes has attracted many decision researchers …

Attitude, inference, association: On the propositional structure of implicit bias

E Mandelbaum - Noûs, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The overwhelming majority of those who theorize about implicit biases posit that these
biases are caused by some sort of association. However, what exactly this claim amounts to …

A meta-analysis on unconscious thought effects

M Strick, A Dijksterhuis, MW Bos, A Sjoerdsma… - Social …, 2011 - Guilford Press
A meta-analysis was performed on the unconscious thought effect (UTE). All available
published and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to …

On making the right choice: A meta-analysis and large-scale replication attempt of the unconscious thought advantage

MR Nieuwenstein, T Wierenga, RD Morey… - … and Decision making, 2015 - cambridge.org
Are difficult decisions best made after a momentary diversion of thought? Previous research
addressing this important question has yielded dozens of experiments in which participants …

The impact of the mode of thought in complex decisions: Intuitive decisions are better

M Usher, Z Russo, M Weyers, R Brauner… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
A number of recent studies have reported that decision quality is enhanced under conditions
of inattention or distraction (unconscious thought; Dijksterhuis,; Dijksterhuis and Nordgren,; …

Unconscious thought theory and its discontents: A critique of the critiques

JA Bargh - Social Cognition, 2011 - Guilford Press
A review of Unconscious Thought Theory, its original empirical support, and the several
methodological and empirical critiques that followed leads to the following conclusions:(1) …

Gist memory in the unconscious-thought effect

M Abadie, L Waroquier, P Terrier - Psychological Science, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The unconscious-thought effect (UTE) occurs when people are better able to make complex
decisions after a period of distraction rather than immediately or after a period of conscious …

What intuitions are… and are not

VA Thompson - Psychology of learning and motivation, 2014 - Elsevier
Intuitions are commonly defined in terms of their supposed characteristics, for example, fast,
implicit, parallel, and automatic. In this chapter, I argue that such an approach fails to provide …