Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning

Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning

The authors examined cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning among East Asian (Chinese and Korean), Asian American, and European American university students. We investigated categorization (Studies 1 and 2), conceptual structure (Study 3), and deductive reasoning (Studies 3 and 4). In each study a cognitive conflict was activated between formal and intuitive strategies of re...

Extensional Versus Intuitive Reasoning: The Conjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgment

Perhaps the simplest and the most basic qualitative law of probability is the conjunction rule: The probability of a conjunction, P(A&B), cannot exceed the probabilities of its constituents, P(A) and P(B), because the extension (or the possibility set) of the conjunction is included in the extension of its constituents. Judgments under uncertainty, however, are often mediated by intuitive heuri...

Moral versus Social-Conventional Reasoning: A Narrative and Cultural Critique

Formal Reasoning for Safety Critical

Formal methods can signiicantly assist in the design and modelling of safety-critical systems. However, formal methods are frequently criticised as being unusable through being too complex and requiring expert knowledge to use. We assert that to make formal methods usable they must be able to be presented in a manner which is readily interpretable. However, we must ensure that the inferences wh...

Intuitive and Formal Representations : The Case of