Direct Comparison of Intuitive, Quasi-Rational and Analytical Cognition

Abstract

The relative efficacy of intuitive and analytical cognition in analytically competent persons was directly compared. More subjects performed best in the intuitive mode when inconsistency was removed from their judgments, an indication that the subjects possessed implicit knowledge that they did not utilize in the analytical mode. More subjects made larger errors in the analytical mode than in the intuitive mode. Subjects' confidence was generally inappropriately placed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA130273

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  • Janet. Grassia
  • Kenneth R. Hammond
  • Robert M. Hamm
  • Tamra. Pearson

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  • University of Colorado Boulder

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