Response generation, not response execution, influences feelings of rightness in reasoning.

ABSTRACT: It has been argued that the experience of ease (i.e., the ability to quickly generate an initial response) during processing influences one's likelihood of engaging reflectively when reasoning. This is a key facet of Metacognitive Reasoning Theory (MRT) and numerous studies have found support for this claim by showing that answers that come to mind quickly, are associated with higher feelings of rightness (FORs), and less reflective processing. However, the possibility remains that the critical determinant of FORs may be the speed of executing a response and not generating a response, given the nature of the evidence for this claim. Across two experiments, we manipulated the duration of the response execution to identify whether participants' FOR judgements are at least partially ba

SUBMITTER: Stewart KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503250 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature