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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
February 2000
Abstract
Tasks in the adult reasoning literature are designed so that heuristic processing leads one astray and adequate rule-based processing requires explicit knowledge about applicable logical and quasi-logical norms. Other research, however, indicates that appropriate rule-based inferences can be automatic. Individual differences in rationality are largely due to differences in developmental progress toward metacognitive understanding of both heuristic and rule-based inferences.
Comments
Published in BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES 23 (2000), 645–726. © 2000 Cambridge University Press. Used by permission.