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Tidikis, Viktoria; Ash, Ivan K. – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
This study investigated the effects of working in dyads and their associated gender composition on performance (solution rate and time) and process variables (number of impasses, number of passed solutions, and number of problem solving suggestions and interactions) in a set of classic insight problem solving tasks. Two types of insight problems…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Problem Solving, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Pennycook, Gordon; Fugelsang, Jonathan A.; Koehler, Derek J. – Cognition, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys and Glumicic (2008) demonstrated that participants reason longer about problems that are characterized by conflict (as opposed to agreement) between stereotypical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Group Membership, Reaction Time, Conflict
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Mccloy, Rachel; Beaman, C. Philip; Frosch, Caren A.; Goddard, Kate – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Using 3 experiments, we examine whether simple pairwise comparison judgments, involving the "recognition heuristic" (Goldstein & Gigerenzer, 2002), are sensitive to implicit cues to the nature of the comparison required. In Experiments 1 and 2, we show that participants frequently choose the recognized option of a pair if asked to make "larger"…
Descriptors: Cues, Experiments, Recognition (Psychology), Intuition