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. |