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How do researchers experimentally trigger analytic vs. intuitive thinking?

Are there well-established experimental methods to make people think more analytically or more intuitively in lab studies?

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By Rani Answered 2 months ago

Yes. Researchers often use time pressure or cognitive load (like memorizing numbers) to push intuitive thinking, and explicit instructions to slow down and reason carefully to induce analytic thinking. Priming people with logic- or emotion-related cues is also common. These methods are widely used and validated in journals like Judgment and Decision Making and Cognitive Science.

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