Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide

Senne Braem; Leslie Held; Amitai Shenhav; Romy Frömer

doi:10.1017/S0140525X22003090

Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2023

Amitai Shenhav and

Senne Braem: Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium senne.braem@ugent.be; https://users.ugent.be/~sbraem/ leslie.held@ugent.be
Leslie Held: Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium senne.braem@ugent.be; https://users.ugent.be/~sbraem/ leslie.held@ugent.be
Amitai Shenhav: Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA amitai_shenhav@brown.edu; https://www.shenhavlab.org
Romy Frömer: Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA amitai_shenhav@brown.edu; https://www.shenhavlab.org Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK r.froemer@bham.ac.uk

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Research on human reasoning has both popularized and struggled with the idea that intuitive and deliberate thoughts stem from two different systems, raising the question how people switch between them. Inspired by research on cognitive control and conflict monitoring, we argue that detecting the need for further thought relies on an intuitive, context-sensitive process that is learned in itself.

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Information: Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22003090 [Opens in a new window]
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