Who is rational studies of individual differences in reasoning

Tables from this paper. Paper Mentions. Blog Post. How biased are you? The role of intelligence in protecting you from thinking biases. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Does smart mean rational? A study of cognitive dispositions, heuristics and rationality. Human decision making is systematically less-than-fully rational and partly unconscious. Importantly, people's decisions deviate from the recommendations by "standard" economics in somewhat … Expand.

View 1 excerpt, cites background. Judgment and decision making in adolescence: Separating intelligence from rationality. Traditional … Expand. Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate? Much research in the last two decades has demonstrated that human responses deviate from the performance deemed normative according to various models of decision making and rational judgment e. On the relative independence of thinking biases and cognitive ability.

View 1 excerpt, cites results. Individual difference studies suggest that reasoners highest in cognitive capacity favor analytic, normative responses over fallacious, heuristic responses. The present study complemented reasoning … Expand. Rationality and the reflective mind: A case for typical performance measure of cognitive ability.

Abstract Intelligence and cognitive abilities often denoted good thinking. However, critics of intelligence tests have long pointed out that the failures of rational judgments and decision-making … Expand. Book Description. Integrating a decade-long program of empirical research with current cognitive theory, this book demonstrates that psychological research has profound implications for current debates about what it means to be rational.

The author brings new evidence to bear on these issues by demonstrating that patterns of individual differences--largely ignored in disputes about human rationality--have strong implications for explanations of the gap between normative and descriptive models of human behavior.

Separate chapters show how patterns of individual differences have implications for all of the major critiques of purported demonstrations of human irrationality in the heuristics and biases literature. In these critiques, it has been posited that experimenters have observed performance errors read more. Book Specifications. ISBN Language English.

Binding Hard Bound. Publisher Psychology Press. Publishing Date Product Edition 1. Stanovich - - Thinking and Reasoning 14 1 — Moral Universals and Individual Differences. Added to PP index Total views 6 1,, of 2,, Recent downloads 6 months 1 , of 2,, How can I increase my downloads? Sign in to use this feature. About us.

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