Miserliness in human cognition: The interaction of detection, override and mindware

KE Stanovich - Thinking & Reasoning, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to processing
mechanisms of low computational expense. Such a tendency leads to suboptimal outcomes …

Response times in economics: Looking through the lens of sequential sampling models

JA Clithero - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Economics is increasingly using process data to make novel inferences about preferences
and predictions of choices. The measurement of response time (RT), the amount of time it …

Cognitive predictors of precautionary behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

V Thoma, L Weiss-Cohen, P Filkuková… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The attempts to mitigate the unprecedented health, economic, and social disruptions caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic are largely dependent on establishing compliance to behavioral …

Bubbles and financial professionals

U Weitzel, C Huber, J Huber, M Kirchler… - The Review of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The efficiency of financial markets and their potential to produce bubbles are central topics
in academic and professional debates. Yet, little is known about the contribution of financial …

Childhood unpredictability, life history, and intuitive versus deliberate cognitive styles

X Wang, N Zhu, L Chang - Personality and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Cognitive style is a major component of individuals' life history and everyday life. However,
individual variations in cognitive styles are not well understood from an evolutionary …

Anxiety‐induced miscalculations, more than differential inhibition of intuition, explain the gender gap in cognitive reflection

M Juanchich, M Sirota… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is among the most common and well‐known
instruments for measuring the propensity to engage reflective processing, in the context of …

Not so fast: Individual differences in impulsiveness are only a modest predictor of cognitive reflection

S Littrell, J Fugelsang, EF Risko - Personality and Individual Differences, 2020 - Elsevier
The extent to which a person engages in reflective thinking while problem-solving is often
measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005). Some past research …

Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: Digital Devices' Effects on Cognitive Reflection

K Figl, U Remus - Journal of Management Information Systems, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Informed by theoretical perspectives on working memory demands and devices' potential to
“prime” different types of cognitive processing, this paper investigates whether we tend to …

Women and 'the philosophical personality': Evaluating whether gender differences in the cognitive reflection test have significance for explaining the gender gap in …

C Easton - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is purported to test our inclination to overcome
impulsive, intuitive thought with effortful, rational reflection. Research suggests that …

Do economics courses improve students' analytical skills? A difference-in-difference estimation

S Dendir, AG Orlov, J Roufagalas - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2019 - Elsevier
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that provides robust empirical support to
the claim that exposure to economics training improves students' analytical skills and …