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Insight solutions are correct more often than analytic solutions
Thinking & reasoning, v 22(4), pp 443-460
01 Oct 2016
PMID: 27667960
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Abstract
How accurate are insights compared to analytical solutions? In four experiments, we investigated how participants' solving strategies influenced their solution accuracies across different types of problems, including one that was linguistic, one that was visual and two that were mixed visual-linguistic. In each experiment, participants' self-judged insight solutions were, on average, more accurate than their analytic ones. We hypothesised that insight solutions have superior accuracy because they emerge into consciousness in an all-or-nothing fashion when the unconscious solving process is complete, whereas analytic solutions can be guesses based on conscious, prematurely terminated, processing. This hypothesis is supported by the finding that participants' analytic solutions included relatively more incorrect responses (i.e., errors of commission) than timeouts (i.e., errors of omission) compared to their insight responses.
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- Title
- Insight solutions are correct more often than analytic solutions
- Creators
- Carola Salvi - Rehabilitation Institute of ChicagoEmanuela Bricolo - University of Milano-BicoccaJohn Kounios - Drexel UniversityEdward Bowden - University of Wisconsin–ParksideMark Beeman - Northwestern University
- Publication Details
- Thinking & reasoning, v 22(4), pp 443-460
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- T32 NS047987 / National Institutes of Health (10.13039/100000002) 1144976 / National Science Foundation (10.13039/100000001) 24467 / John Templeton Foundation (10.13039/100000925)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000393303700003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84958545333
- Other Identifier
- 991019169709004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Experimental