title: The effect of introspection on judgment and decision making is dependent on the quality of conscious thinking.
abstract: That introspection may impair certain judgments and result in fabrication has been attributed to a distracting shift from more adaptive intuitive processing to more analytic and conscious processing. This phenomenon was studied in an experiment where participants made multidimensional visual choices. It was found that the effect of this shift on decision-making performance was dependent on the quality of the explanations during introspection, while the performance in silent conditions was not. Therefore, it appears that the effect of introspection on judgments is not only influenced by the thinking mode per se, but also by the individual's ability to approach the decision problem analytically.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 1 A), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: tuomas.leisti@helsinki.fi.
authors.forename: Tuomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leisti
authors.affiliation: Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 1 A), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: jukka.hakkinen@helsinki.fi.
authors.forename: Jukka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Häkkinen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Analytic and intuitive thinking; Dual process theories; Individual differences; Introspection; Judgment and decision making; Visual choice