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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Reasoning
  • Decision Making

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  • Feeling of Rightness (FOR) indicates analytic thinking in response to intuitive judgments.
  • Prior studies show FOR predicts thinking time and answer change probability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if FOR predicts the direction of answer changes in sequential reasoning.
  • Investigate how FOR influences shifts between belief-based and logic-based responses.

Main Methods:

  • 289 participants completed belief-logic conflict syllogisms under time constraints and then without.
  • Responses were analyzed for shifts towards belief-based or validity-based reasoning.

Main Results:

  • Low FORs for belief-based answers predicted shifts towards validity-based reasoning.
  • High FORs for belief-based answers predicted shifts towards belief-based reasoning.
  • FOR successfully predicted both the probability and direction of response changes.

Conclusions:

  • Intuitive Feeling of Rightness signals the direction of cognitive shifts in reasoning.
  • FOR is a key metacognitive indicator of how individuals adjust their judgments.