When fast logic meets slow belief: Evidence for a parallel-processing model of belief bias.

ABSTRACT: Two experiments pitted the default-interventionist account of belief bias against a parallel-processing model. According to the former, belief bias occurs because a fast, belief-based evaluation of the conclusion pre-empts a working-memory demanding logical analysis. In contrast, according to the latter both belief-based and logic-based responding occur in parallel. Participants were given deductive reasoning problems of variable complexity and instructed to decide whether the conclusion was valid on half the trials or to decide whether the conclusion was believable on the other half. When belief and logic conflict, the default-interventionist view predicts that it should take less time to respond on the basis of belief than logic, and that the believability of a conclusion should interfer

SUBMITTER: Trippas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432582 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature