The Cognitive Reflection Test as a predictor of performance on heuristics-and-biases tasks

By M. Toplak, R. F. West, K. Stanovich. Memory & Cognition, 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit (2015, positive): “The CRT has been shown to reﬂect the tendency to avoid miserly cognitive processing (Campitelli & Gerrans, 2013; Toplak, West & Stanovich, 2011), presumably because those with an analytic cognitive style are more likely to question or avoid the intuitive response.”
Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test (2014, background): “Consistent with the results of Toplak et al. (2011), in this study we demonstrated that an expanded CRT was a substantial unique predictor of rational thinking performance independent not only of cognitive ability, but also of a fairly comprehensive set of thinking dispositions.”
Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test (2016, background): “In fact, Toplak et al. (2011) found that the CRT better pre- dicted performance on a composite of 15 separate rational- thinking tasks than either intelligence measures or measures of executive functioning.”
It’s a Trap! Instructional Manipulation Checks Prompt Systematic Thinking on “Tricky” Tasks (2015, methodology): “To further test the impact of IMCs on cognitive performance, Study 2 employs a different task, namely, a probabilistic reasoning task (described below) on which performance is impaired by denominator neglect (Toplak et al., 2011).”
Reflective liberals and intuitive conservatives: A look at the Cognitive Reflection Test and ideology (2015, positive): “We use the terms “intuition” and “reﬂection”. of psychological traits, values, and beliefs (e.g., Barr, Pen-nycook, Stolz & Fugelslang 2015; Pennycook et al. 2014; Toplak et al. 2011).”
Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals (2015, neutral): “Specifically, we used two-digit NAICS industry codes to classify each employer into finance (two-digit NAICS code 52), professional services, which we refer to as “consulting” (two-digit NAICS code 54), and “other” (the remaining two-digit codes).”
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government (2017, background): “Like the CRT, the numeracy scale measures a disposition to subject intuition to critical interrogation in light of all available information, and thus to avoid mistakes characteristic of overreliance on heuristic, System 1 information processing (Liberali et al., 2012).”
The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, background): “How much does the ball cost?' The incorrect intuitive answer – 10 cents – comes to mind intuitively for most people, whereas the correct answer – 5 cents – emerges (for most) only with an additional deliberation process [137].”
Finding middle ground between intellectual arrogance and intellectual servility: Development and assessment of the limitations-owning intellectual humility scale (2018, background): “While all of the questions are simple and do not require advanced mathematics, it is not unusual for more than half of participants to not correctly answer any (Toplak et al. 2011).”
The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014, methodology): “The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values”