THESE PROBLEMS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ME: PREVIOUS EXPOSURE, COGNITIVE REFLECTION TEST, AND THE MODERATING ROLE OF ANALYTIC THINKING

• Authors: Šrol Jakub
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One of the current topics in research on the Cognitive reflection test (CRT) is its growing familiarity among the general public. Surprisingly, Bialek and Pennycook (2017) showed that previous exposure does not diminish the CRT’s predictive power in heuristics and biases (H&B) tasks, but proposed that the relationship is moderated by analytic thinking, a conjecture tested in the present study. Participants (N = 365) filled in the CRT, Need for Cognition scale, and a battery of H&B problems. While the CRT did retain its predictive power in the H&B performance, regardless of participants’ self-reported thinking dispositions and exposure, both of these factors moderated the relationship, such that exposure increased CRT’s predictive power in H&B tasks, albeit only among high-NFC individuals. Present results converge with studies showing that prior exposure does not invalidate the use of CRT, while offering some novel evidence for the metacognitive disadvantage account proposed by Bialek and Pennycook (2017).

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE REFLECTION TEST; FAMILIAR; COGNITIVE BIAS; ANALYTIC THINKING; METACOGNITIVE DISADVANTAGE

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 195 – 208

Contributors

author

Šrol Jakub

• Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 841 04, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.21909/sp.2018.03.762