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Conflict paradigms cannot reveal competence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2023

Roman Feiman Open the ORCID record for Roman Feiman [Opens in a new window]
Roman Feiman*
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Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA roman_feiman@brown.edu https://sites.brown.edu/bltlab/
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Abstract

De Neys is right to criticize the exclusivity assumption in dual-process theories, but he misses the original sin underlying this assumption, which his working model continues to share. Conflict paradigms, in which experimenters measure how one cognitive process interferes (or does not interfere) with another, license few inferences about how the interfered-with process works on its own.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e120
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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