Tversky and Kahneman’s cognitive illusions. Who can solve them, and why?

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dc.contributor.authorBruckmaier, Georg
dc.contributor.authorKrauss, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorBinder, Karin
dc.contributor.authorHilbert, Sven
dc.contributor.authorBrunner, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-26T11:45:05Z
dc.date.available2023-04-26T11:45:05Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-12
dc.description.abstractIn the present paper we empirically investigate the psychometric properties of some of the most famous statistical and logical cognitive illusions from the “heuristics and biases” research program by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who nearly 50 years ago introduced fascinating brain teasers such as the famous Linda problem, the Wason card selection task, and so-called Bayesian reasoning problems (e.g., the mammography task). In the meantime, a great number of articles has been published that empirically examine single cognitive illusions, theoretically explaining people’s faulty thinking, or proposing and experimentally implementing measures to foster insight and to make these problems accessible to the human mind. Yet these problems have thus far usually been empirically analyzed on an individual-item level only (e.g., by experimentally comparing participants’ performance on various versions of one of these problems). In this paper, by contrast, we examine these illusions as a group and look at the ability to solve them as a psychological construct. Based on an sample of = 2,643 Luxembourgian school students of age 16–18 we investigate the internal psychometric structure of these illusions (i.e., Are they substantially correlated? Do they form a reflexive or a formative construct?), their connection to related constructs (e.g., Are they distinguishable from intelligence or mathematical competence in a confirmatory factor analysis?), and the question of which of a person’s abilities can predict the correct solution of these brain teasers (by means of a regression analysis).en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584689
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4805
dc.identifier.urihttps://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/34889.1
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychologyen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en_US
dc.subject.ddc370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesenen_US
dc.titleTversky and Kahneman’s cognitive illusions. Who can solve them, and why?en_US
dc.type01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift*
dc.volume12en_US
fhnw.InventedHereYesen_US
fhnw.IsStudentsWorknoen_US
fhnw.ReviewTypeAnonymous ex ante peer review of a complete publicationen_US
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fhnw.pagination1-25en_US
fhnw.publicationStatePublisheden_US
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