Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning.

By Adam L. Alter, Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Nicholas Epley, Rebecca N. Eyre. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2007

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

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EPISTEMIC ANXIETY AND ADAPTIVE INVARIANTISM (2010, background): “There is also evidence that where experienced fluency falls short of what was antecedently expected, epistemic anxiety is increased (Alter et al., 2007).”
Cognitive abilities and superior decision making under risk: A protocol analysis and process model evaluation (2009, background): “Critically, a higher fidelity understanding of these mechanisms will require theoretical models to address the interplay of (1) individual differences (e.g., abilities, traits, motivation, expertise), (2) cognitive processes, and (3) the environmental factors that shape strategy selection and effica”
Reflective liberals and intuitive conservatives: A look at the Cognitive Reflection Test and ideology (2015, neutral): “For example, simply in-structing subjects to think analytically (Rusou, et al., 2013), asking subjects to furrow their brows (Alter, et al., 2007), manipulating fonts to make words harder to read (Gervais & Norenzayan, 2012; Song & Schwarz, 2008), and using basic visual cues or particular patterns…”
The Power of Simplicity: Processing Fluency and the Effects of Olfactory Cues on Retail Sales (2013, background): “Further, Alter et al. (2007) howed disfluency (i.e., the opposite of fluency) to increase peole’s reliance on systematic processing cues when evaluating a Simplicity: Processing Fluency and the Effects of Olfactory Cues on jretai.2012.08.002 ersuasive communication.”
The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency (2013, methodology): “To examine that effect, we (Alter et al., 2007) adopted a classic paradigm devised by Kahneman and Tversky (1973).”
Do all ducks lay eggs? The generic overgeneralization effect (2011, background): “The lower rate may have been due to eliminating any subkind and restricted interpretations, or alternatively the numerical population information may have put participants in a more careful and analytic frame of mind (Alter et al., 2007).”
This Number Just Feels Right: The Impact of Roundedness of Price Numbers on Product Evaluations (2015, methodology): “In this section, we draw upon research on the psychology of numbers and processing fluency (e.g., Alter et al. 2007; Rosch 1975; Schindler and Yalch 2006) to derive our rounded price hypothesis.”