Heuristic and analytic processes in reasoning

By Jonathan Evans. 1984

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Thinking Fast and Slow with Deep Learning and Tree Search (2017, background): “According to dual-process theory [1, 2], human reasoning consists of two different kinds of thinking.”
Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale (2019, background): “asoning with knowledge in massive-capacity memory (Wang et al., 2003). Therefore, insights on the solutions to these challenges can be drawn from the cognitive process of humans. Dual process theory (Evans, 1984,2003,2008;Sloman,1996) suggests that our brains ﬁrst retrieve relevant information follo”
Heuristics and Biases: Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate? (2002, unknown): “Similarly, in the heuristics and biases literature, the term bias is reserved for systematic deviations from normative reasoning and does not refer to transitory processing errors (“a bias is a source of error which is systematic rather than random,” Evans 1984, p. 462).”
Evolutionary versus instrumental goals: How evolutionary psychology misconceives human rationality (2003, background): “As in the Linda Problem and four-card selection task discussed above, the literature is full of problems where an abstract, decontextualized--but computationally expensive-approach is required for the normatively appropriate answer.”
Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters (2024, background): “Humans tend to think for longer on difficult problems to reliably improve their decisions [9, 17, 18].”
Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning (2022, background): “The idea that humans possess dual reasoning systems — an implicit, intuitive system “system 1”, and an explicit reasoning “system 2’—wasmotivated in large part by belief bias and Wason task effects (Evans, 1984, 2003; Oaksford and Chater, 2003).”