Cognitive Style Tends To Predict Religious Conviction (psychcentral.com)

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http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/09/21/cognitive-style-tends-to-predict-religious-conviction/29646.html

Participants who gave intuitive answers to all three problems [that required reflective thinking rather than intuitive] were one and a half times as likely to report they were convinced of God’s existence as those who answered all of the questions correctly.

Importantly, researchers discovered the association between thinking styles and religious beliefs were not tied to the participants’ thinking ability or IQ.

participants who wrote about a successful intuitive experience were more likely to report they were convinced of God’s existence than those who wrote about a successful reflective experience.

I think this is the source but I can't be sure:

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-ofp-shenhav.pdf

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7o4/atheism_autism_spectrum/4vbc

Reddit /r/psychology discussion

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/09/21/cognitive-style-tends-to-predict-religious-conviction/29646.html

Participants who gave intuitive answers to all three problems [that required reflective thinking rather than intuitive] were one and a half times as likely to report they were convinced of God’s existence as those who answered all of the questions correctly.

Importantly, researchers discovered the association between thinking styles and religious beliefs were not tied to the participants’ thinking ability or IQ.

participants who wrote about a successful intuitive experience were more likely to report they were convinced of God’s existence than those who wrote about a successful reflective experience.

I think this is the source but I can't be sure:

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-ofp-shenhav.pdf

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7o4/atheism_autism_spectrum/4vbc

Reddit /r/psychology discussion

The way it went in my head:

Huh, that's obvious, it's 1. Oh wait, 'more than.' So it's half the remaining .10.

(Although I would say it took less time than reading that sentence takes.)

It'd be interesting if getting the wrong answer first is the quickest method of getting the right answer.

I found a set of five experiments similar to the one I described. Getting the wrong answer first appears to be a good method to get to the right answer.

Specifically, we evaluated the benefits of testing novel science instructional content before learning. Thus, the likelihood of failed tests was high, but we were able to extend our theory of testing to better understand whether trying and failing on test questions actually improved learners’ longer term retention of subsequently presented information...in the current study, the prequestions required part

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I recently read something like this, though I can't remember where. The experiment went roughly like so: Subjects were divided into two groups. In one, each subject was given 15 seconds to memorize an answer to a question for several seconds, and their performance recalling the answer later was recorded. In the other, each was asked to guess the answer, and was then given 7 or 8 or so seconds to memorize the correct answer. The time difference was to account for the time during which the second group's members thought about the question. So each person was exposed to the question for 15 seconds, in the first group, they were exposed to the answer for those same 15 seconds, in the second group, for half that. The second group was better at recalling the answers.

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