Slower is not always better: Response-time evidence clarifies the limited role of miserly information processing in the Cognitive Reflection Test.

We report a study examining the role of 'cognitive miserliness' as a determinant of poor performance on the standard three-item Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT). The cognitive miserliness hypothesis proposes that people often respond incorrectly on CRT items because of an unwillingness to g...

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Main Authors: Edward J N Stupple, Melanie Pitchford, Linden J Ball, Thomas E Hunt, Richard Steel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5669478?pdf=render