PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jonathan Haidt, Blaise Pascal, Cognitive Bias
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Does not require mental efort requires mental resources. We do not always have suicient ime or mental resources to engage in eforful processing! System 1 is default, but can be overridden by system 2 when needed. Paricipants who perform beter on the crt are: more paient, more risk-averse. Less likely to believe in paranormal phenomenon & supernatural agents (god, angels, devil) These things all seem to tap into one key concept: reliance on intuiions/feelings, which is negaively correlated with performance on the crt. Then roll a die 3 imes, & are told computer will randomly decide which roll will be paid out (1, Suggests that people with limited system 2 resources (who are using system 1) are more honest! If you pay atenion to your emoions and beliefs, you will make mistakes when problem- solving. If you pay atenion to your emoions and beliefs, they will boost reasoning capacity when problem-solving.
