Bias and Conflict:A Case for Logical Intuitions

摘要

Human reasoning has been characterized as often biased, heuristic, and illogical. In this article, I consider recent findingsestablishing that, despite the widespread bias and logical errors, people at least implicitly detect that their heuristic responseconflicts with traditional normative considerations. I propose that this conflict sensitivity calls for the postulation of logical andprobabilistic knowledge that is intuitive and that is activated automatically when people engage in a reasoning task. I sketch thebasic characteristics of these intuitions and point to implications for ongoing debates in the field.