Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

A great deal of reasoning research indicates that individualsare often biased by intuitive heuristics. However,contemporary results indicate that individuals seem sensitiveto their biases; they seem to detect conflict with reasoningnorms. One of the key remaining questions is whether thisconflict sensitivity is domain general. To address thisquestion, we administered a battery of five classical reasoningtasks to a large sample of subjects and assessed their conflictdetection efficiency on each task by measuring their responseconfidence. Results indicate that conflict detection is, in mostsenses, not domain general, though there are compellingexceptions.