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A good architecture for fast and slow thinking, but exclusivity is exclusively in the past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2023

Keith E. Stanovich Open the ORCID record for Keith E. Stanovich [Opens in a new window]  and
Maggie E. Toplak Open the ORCID record for Maggie E. Toplak [Opens in a new window]
Keith E. Stanovich
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Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada keith.stanovich@utoronto.ca http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Home.html
Maggie E. Toplak
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada mtoplak@yorku.ca http://maggietoplak.com/
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Abstract

No doubt older work in the dual-process tradition overemphasized the importance and frequency of the override function, and the working model in this target article provides a useful corrective. The attempt to motivate the model using the so-called exclusivity assumption is unnecessary, because no recent dual-process model in the reasoning literature has rested strongly on this assumption.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e142
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