More evidence that time pressure inhibits reflective thinking:

Covariance detection tasks lure people into judging the effectiveness of an intervention by the NUMBER of times it worked rather than the RATIO of times it worked (compared to the times is didn't work).

As with other reflection tests, a time limit reduced performance on the task (N ≅ 400).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06525-0

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