“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance to measures of rational decision making. This creates some curious phenomena that we do in fact tend to… — 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
