Thinking Errors Quotes by Keith E. Stanovich

“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

“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

“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

“More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!”

— Keith E. Stanovich

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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