Carlos Cueva|Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe|Esther Mata-Pérez|Giovanni Ponti|Marcello Sartarelli|Haihan Yu|Vita Zhukova
Cognitive (ir)reflection: New experimental evidence
University of Alicante|University of Alicante|University of Alicante|University of Alicante|Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli|University of Alicante|University of Alicante|University of Alicante
study cognitive abilities correlate behavioral choices collecting evidence almost 1200 subjects across eight experimental projects concerning wide variety tasks including classic risk social preference elicitation protocols cognitive reflection test crt administered experimental subjects makes dataset one largest literature partition subject pool three groups depending crt performance reflective subjects answering least two three crt questions correctly impulsive subjects unable suppress instinctive impulse follow intuitive although incorrect answer least two 2 questions remaining subjects form residual group find females score significantly less males crt wrong answers impulsive ones observed frequently 2d4d ratio higher females correlated negatively subjects crt score also find differences risk attitudes across crt groups crucially depend elicitation task finally impulsive subjects higher social inequityaverse concerns reflective subjects likely satisfy basic consistency requirements lottery choices