“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Jack is looking at Anne but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person looking at… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less computational capacity… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“In order to override Type i processing, Type 2 processing must display at least two related capabilities. One is the capability of interrupting Type… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!” — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance to measures… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“One study demonstrated that people's evaluation of a situation where they might receive a shock is insensitive to the probability of receiving the shock… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“The defining feature of Type r processing is its autonomy. Type r processes are termed autonomous because: r) their execution is rapid, 2) their… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans, 2007a; Gilovich,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“When a high IQ-test score is accompanied by subpar performance in some other domain, this is thought "surprising," and a new disability category is… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“To be rational, a person must have well-calibrated beliefs and must act appropriately on those beliefs to achieve goals-both properties of the reflective mind.… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Cognitive scientists recognize two types of rationality: instrumental and epistemic. The simplest definition of instrumental rationality-the one that emphasizes most that it is grounded… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“In cognitive science, the tendency to give different responses to problems that have surface dissimilarities but that are really formally identical is termed a… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
