Intuitive and Reflective Inferences
By Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber. 2008
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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Decision Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective (2012, background): “Let us call thinking about one’s own thoughts, and in particular about reasons for one’s beliefs and decisions, ‘reflective thinking’ (Mercier & Sperber, 2009; Sperber, 1997).”
- EPISTEMIC ANXIETY AND ADAPTIVE INVARIANTISM (2010, background): “…energy are on the whole more directed towards putting oneself in a better position to self-justify, rather than towards increased accuracy per se (Mercier & Sperber, 2009), but even if increased effort heightens accuracy only incidentally and imperfectly, it may still end up being adaptive…”
- Reasoning Serves Argumentation in Children (2011, unknown): “ Mercier and Sperber have attempted to sharpen the distinction by defining and contrasting intuitive and reflective inferences (Mercier & Sperber, 2009).”