TY - JOUR AU1 - Toplak, Maggie E. AU2 - West, Richard F. AU3 - Stanovich, Keith E. AB - The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005) is designed to measure the tendency to override a prepotent response alternative that is incorrect and to engage in further reflection that leads to the correct response. It is a prime measure of the miserly information processing posited by most dual process theories. The original three-item test may be becoming known to potential participants, however. We examined a four-item version that could serve as a substitute for the original. Our data show that it displays a .58 correlation with the original version and that it has very similar relationships with cognitive ability, various thinking dispositions, and with several other rational thinking tasks. Combining the two versions into a seven-item test resulted in a measure of miserly processing with substantial reliability (.72). The seven-item version was a strong independent predictor of performance on rational thinking tasks after the variance accounted for by cognitive ability and thinking dispositions had been partialled out. TI - Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test JF - Thinking & Reasoning DO - 10.1080/13546783.2013.844729 DA - 2014-04-03 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/assessing-miserly-information-processing-an-expansion-of-the-cognitive-HhtJMAQ0DZ SP - 147 EP - 168 VL - 20 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -