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Dual Process Theory

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December 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Dual Process Theory

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December 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM

One More Night

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Hey everyone! I'm proud to announce the guests for our fourth stream for One More Night Against Cancer coming March 24th at 12pm CST ft. DualProcessTheory @glamrockdusky.bsky.social JerakaiGamez @candibuuny.bsky.social ShyCrow TDreads @cryonide.bsky.social Drazam
See you soon

March 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

#edu #cogSci #bias #debiasing #psychology #epistemology #rationality

April 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Dual Process Theory

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for those who are confused about pomni's nightmare in TADC E8: www.tumblr.com/dualprocesst...

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March 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Aleks

@themosscryptid.bsky.social

Same same. For theories I like to watch RyeToasts and DualProcessTheory videos, even though I can't keep up with them haha. But DPTs first video was so good, almost got me into the theory rabbit hole again

December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Fort_Master

@fortmaster.bsky.social

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November 9, 2024 at 6:33 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

A #Bayesian, #DualProcessTheory inspired, multinomial approach to moral dilemmas found the
- “do no harm” impulse predicted by class, but not reflection.
- “some harm for greater good” responses predicted by reflection, not class.

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#xPhi #psycholoy #stats

The classic process dissociation approach to moral dilemmas (Conway & Gawronski 2013) vs. this paper's dual process (DP) multinomial approach to moral dilemmas.

How the control variables were measured and standardized.

Predictors of the automatic-spontaneous (AS)/deontological response pattern.

Predictors of the reflective-calculating (RC)/consequentialist response pattern.

November 29, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

Another paper challenges #dualProcessTheory about #ethics: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

- no effect of reflection test prime
- reflection tests about #math didn't predict utilitarian responses
- reflection tests about #logic predicted more utilitarian AND more deontological responses

The undetected reflection test prime effect on moral judgments.

Table 7 showing the CRT (a mathematical reflection test) failing to predict multiple explications of utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas.

Process dissociation revealed more consistent correlations between reflection tests and moral dilemma judgments, but did not reveal that a mathematical reflection test (CRT) predicted utilitarian judgment. Moreover, what logical reflection predicted was more utilitarian AND more deontological responses (rather than more of one and less of the other).

The general discussion (Section 5) admits that "correlations between reﬂective cognitive style and utilitarian judgment ...depended on how utilitarian judgment was measured and, most importantly, ﬂuctuated depending on how cognitive style was assessed. This is in line with previous research emphasizing the instability of this relationship (Baron et al., 2015), and the fact that not all measures of cognitive style predict moral judgment in the same way (Byrd & Conway, 2019)."

December 11, 2024 at 11:59 AM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

As with other reflection tests, a time limit reduced performance on the task compared to no time limit (N ≅ 400).

See Figure 3 from this paper (attached): doi.org/10.1007/s121...

#statistics #logic #criticalThinking #medicine #decisionScience #cogSci #edu #dualProcessTheory #cognitiveBias

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September 3, 2024 at 10:21 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

Next I presented papers about how better reflection tests and manipulations as well as #processTracing #surveyMethods challenge/refine #DualProcessTheory.

Most of the papers are online. To find them and get alerts when others are online: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

More in today's poster.

Byrd, N., & Conway, P. (2019). Not all who ponder count costs: Arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but logical reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies. Cognition, 192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.007

Byrd, N. (2023). Great Minds do not Think Alike: Philosophers’ Views Predicted by Reflection, Education, Personality, and Other Demographic Differences. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14(2), 647–684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00628-y

Byrd, N., Joseph, B., Gongora, G., & Sirota, M. (2023). Tell Us What You Really Think: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis of the Verbal Cognitive Reflection Test. Journal of Intelligence, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11040076

January 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

Excited for 2025 presentations in #NYC at the #APA (January 8 to 11): apaonline.org/mpage/...

The talk: researchgate.net/pub...
The poster: researchgate.net/pub...

#decisionScience #philosophy #xPhi #epistemology #bioethics #cognitiveScience #surveyMethods #DualProcessTheory

2025 APA Eastern website, with link to the program

The Experimental Philosophy Society's session with Nick Byrd's talk: "What Philosophical Tendencies Does Reflective Thinking Actually Cause (and What Did It Take to Find Out)?"

Friday afternoon's poster session with Nick Byrd's poster "Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations: Aggregating and Comparing Results from mTurk, CloudResearch, Prolific, and Undergraduate Samples"

November 26, 2024 at 11:32 AM

Dr. John Balla · System 2 Insider

@johndavidballa.bsky.social

Now that I have explained how to self-intervene in your unconscious beliefs and make them conscious, here are my tips for execution.

#behavioraleconomics #cognitivepsychology #kahneman #ellisrebt #dualprocesstheory #thinkingfastandslow #decisionmakingscience #behavioralscience #selfintervention

July 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Derek Louey

@theoryenthusiast.bsky.social

Experts and Novices. Are they incompatible approaches or explain a universal process of learning?
#dualprocesstheory #thinkingfastthinkingslow #MedEd
#scaffolding #schemas #cognitiveload #deliberatepractice #reflectivepractise #competency #proficiency

July 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

#DualProcessTheory. I'm probably too late, but I'd be thrilled to be part of a workshop, seminar, conference, etc. on dual process theory.

November 9, 2024 at 4:41 PM

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

When #dualProcessTheory meets @DisneyPixar animated short: <a href="http://bit.ly/2m53mV7" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/2m53mV7

#psychology #cogSci #philosophy #animation

November 9, 2024 at 10:05 AM