BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UBC Department of Psychology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://psych.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:UBC Department of Psychology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20170210T1803Z-1486749781.6111-EO-11309-1904@10.93.0.117 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260815T124634Z CREATED:20161110T190328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T190328Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161130T143000 SUMMARY: Job Talk: Gordon Pennycook | Cognitive Science Area DESCRIPTION: Title: The causes and consequences of analytic thinking Abstra ct: The ability to reason is the cornerstone of what makes us human\, and i s essential for scientific\, technological\, and cultural progress. Despite our species’ remarkable reasoning abilities\, however\, we also have a pro pensity to act without thinking carefully – often leading to bias and poor decision-making. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Title: The causes and con sequences of analytic thinking
Abstract:
The abi lity to reason is the cornerstone of what makes us human\, and is essential for scientific\, technological\, and cultural progress. Despite our specie s' remarkable reasoning abilities\, however\, we also have a propensity to act without thinking carefully - often leading to bias and poor decision-ma king. Dual process theories have been proposed to describe the tension betw een intuitive and analytic processes\, but have largely focused on delineat ing the characteristics of these two different forms of cognitive processin g (e.g. by exploring what judgments and decisions are favored by intuition vs analytic thinking). In this talk\, I present work investigating two core questions that\, despite their critical importance for dual-process theori sing\, have received relatively little attention: 1) What factors determine when we rely on intuition or\, rather\, engage in analytic reasoning? and 2) What are the consequences of individual differences in this propensity t o override intuitions? I will begin with a metacognitive model of analytic engagement in which I argue that competition between different intuitive re sponses triggers analytic thinking\, and then provide experimental evidence in support of this account. I will then illustrate how dual-process models can be applied to an array of research topics\, such as religious belief\, moral values\, creativity\, science attitudes\, health beliefs\, and pseud o-profound bullshit. This research indicates that even though people are ge nerally quite biased\, there is good evidence that at least some people are able to override salient intuitions at least some of the time. I finish by arguing that investigating the limits of human reason may be a fruitful av enue for interventions that might improve the human condition for future ge nerations.

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