Slower is not always better: Response-time evidence clarifies the limited role of miserly information processing in the Cognitive Reflection Test

摘要: We report a study examining the role of 'cognitive miserliness' as determinant poor performance on standard three-item Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT). The cognitive miserliness hypothesis proposes that people often respond incorrectly CRT items because an unwillingness to go beyond default, heuristic processing and invest time effort in analytic, reflective processing. Our analysis (N = 391) focused people's response times determine whether predicted associations are evident between miserly thinking generation incorrect, intuitive answers. Evidence indicated only weak correlation accuracy. Item-level analyses also failed demonstrate response-time differences correct analytic incorrect answers for two three items. question participants who give can legitimately be termed misers measure same general construct.