 Subsequent experimental work in this area has therefore focused on the question as to whether the stakes effect even exists at all. Some have criticized the early experiments that did not find an effect (DeRose 2011). Others have shown that although the effect does not emerge in the experimental paradigms used by those early experiments, it does emerge in other paradigms (Pinillos 2012; Sripada &amp; Stanley 2012; but see Buckwalter &amp; Schaffer 2015, for a critique). Regardless of how these debates are resolved, recent experimental work seems to have established, at a very minimum, that the pattern of people’s epistemic intuitions is not quite the way it was assumed to be within the previous non-experimental literature.