Paradigm

Objective

Subjects’ task

Conflict Detection Paradigm

Analyze whether biased reasoners detect that their answer violates logical considerations (conflict sensitivity).

Investigate if subjects process the logical principles intuitively

Subjects have to solve “conflict” and “no-conflict” versions of traditional reasoning tasks

Two-Response Paradigm

Study the time-course of intuitive and deliberative processing

Participants are asked to give two consecutive responses. First they have to answer as fast as possible and then they are allowed to take all time they want for generating a final response

Instructional Set Paradigm

Find out if people spontaneously reason logically and if this interferes with their ability to make belief-based judgments

People are asked to follow their intuition and indicate whether or not the conclusion is believable.

Logic-Liking Paradigm

Analyze if people discriminate valid or invalid conclusions related to trivial judgments

Subjects are told that they will see a number of statements and they have to indicate how much they like them or how bright they look on the screen

Two-Block Paradigm

Investigate whether allowing people to repeatedly deliberate will boost their intuitive reasoning performance manipulating the order of the fast and slow blocks

One group solves the fast trials before the slow trials, a second group solves the slow trials first, and a third mixed group alternates between slow and fast trials.