Publications

Boissin, E., Caparos, S., Abi Hana, J., Bernard, C., & De Neys, W. (in press). Easy-fix attentional focus manipulation boosts the intuitive and deliberate use of base-rate information. Memory & Cognition. pdf

Camarda, A., De Neys, W. Ozkalp-Poincloux, B., Hooge, S., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., & Cassotti, M. (2024). Detecting fixation bias in creative idea generation: Evidence from design novices and experts. Creativity Research Journal, 1-21. 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2424620 pdf

Voudouri, A., Bialek, M., & De Neys, W. (2024). Fast & slow decisions under risk: Intuition rather than deliberation drives advantageous choices. Cognition, 250, 105837. pdf

Franiatte, N., Boissin, E., Delmas, A., & De Neys, W. (2024). Boosting debiasing: Impact of repeated training on reasoning. Learning & Instruction, 89, 101845. pdf

Boissin, E., Josserand, M. De Neys, W., & Caparos, S. (2024). Debiasing thinking among non-WEIRD reasoners. Cognition, 243, 105681. pdf

Boissin, E., Caparos, S., & De Neys, W. (2024). Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training. Thinking and Reasoning, 30, 327-355. pdf

Franiatte, N., Boissin, E., Delmas, A., & De Neys, W. (2024). Adieu bias: Debiasing intuitions among french speakers. Psychologica Belgica, 64, 42-57. pdf

Voudouri, A., Bialek, M., Domurat, A., Kowal, M., & De Neys, W. (2023). Conflict detection predicts the temporal stability of intuitive and deliberate reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning, 29, 427-455. pdf

Voudouri, A., Bago, B., Borst, G., & De Neys, W. (2023). Reasoning and cognitive control: Fast & slow. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, E33. doi:10.1017/jdm.2023.32 pdf

De Neys, W. (2023). Further advancing fast-and-slow theorizing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E146. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23000559 (reply to commentators: pdf, commentaries: pdf)

De Neys, W. (2023). Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E111, doi:10.1017/S0140525X2200142X pdf

Boissin, E., Caparos, S., & De Neys, W. (2023). No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning?. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35, 401-421. pdf

Boissin, E., Caparos, S., Voudouri, A., & De Neys, W. (2022). Debiasing system 1: Training favours logical over stereotypical intuiting. Judgment and Decision Making, 17, 646-690. pdf

Bago, B., Bonnefon, J. F., & De Neys, W. (2021). Intuition rather than deliberation determines selfish and prosocial choices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1081-1094. pdf

De Neys, W. (2021). Analytic engagement and the perils of reframing the dual- and single-process models debate. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16, 1432-1434. pdf

De Neys, W. (2021). On dual and single process models of thinking. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16, 1412-1427. pdf

Boissin, E., Caparos, S., Raoelison, M., & De Neys, W. (2021). From bias to sound intuiting: Boosting correct intuitive reasoning. Cognition, 211, 104645. pdf

Vartanian, O., Lam, T. K., Maceda, E., & De Neys, W. (2021). Can a fast thinker be a good thinker? The neural correlates of base-rate neglect measured using a two-response paradigm. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38, 365-386. pdf

Raoelison, M., Boissin, E., Borst, G., & De Neys, W. (2021). From slow to fast logic: The development of logical intuitions. Thinking & Reasoning, 27, 599-622. pdf

Janssen, E., Velinga, S. B., De Neys, W., & van Gog, T. (2021). Recognizing biased reasoning: conflict detection during decision-making and decision-evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 217, 103322. pdf

Raoelison, M., Keime, M., & De Neys, W. (2021).Think slow, then fast: Does repeated deliberation boost correct intuitive responding? Memory & Cognition, 48, 873-883. pdf

Šrol, J., & De Neys, W. (2021). Predicting individual differences in conflict detection and bias susceptibility during reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 27, 38-68. pdf

Raoelison, M., Thompson, V., & De Neys, W. (2020). The smart intuitor: Cognitive capacity predicts intuitive rather than deliberate thinking. Cognition, 204, 104381. pdf

Van Hoof, J., Verschaffel, L., De Neys, W. & Van Dooren, W. (2020). Intuitive errors in learners’ fraction understanding: A dual-process perspective on the natural number bias. Memory & Cognition, 48, 1171-1180. pdf

Janssen, E., Raoelison, M., & De Neys, W. (2020). You’re wrong: The impact of accuracy feedback on the Bat-and-Ball problem. Acta Psychologica, 206, 103042. pdf

Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Hopfensitz, A., Houdé, O., Bonnefon, J. F., & De Neys, W. (2020). Age-related neural correlates of facial trustworthiness detection during economic interaction. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 13, 19–33. pdf

De Neys, W. (2020). Morality, normativity, and the good system 2 fallacy. Diametros, 1-6. doi: 10.33392/diam.1447 pdf

Bago, B., & De Neys, W. (2020). Advancing the specification of dual process models of higher cognition: a critical test of the hybrid model view. Thinking & Reasoning, 26, 1-30. pdf

De Neys, W. (2020). Rational rationalization and System 2. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e34. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002048 pdf

De Neys, W., & Pennycook, G. (2019). Logic, fast and slow: Advances in dual-process theorizing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 503–509. pdf

Bago, B., & De Neys, W. (2019). The intuitive greater good: Testing the corrective dual process model of moral cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 48, 1782-1801. pdf

Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Houdé, O., & De Neys, W. (2019). Developmental frontal brain activation differences in overcoming heuristic bias. Cortex, 117, 111-121. pdf

Bago, B., & De Neys, W. (2019). The smart System 1: Evidence for the intuitive nature of correct responding on the bat-and-ball problem. Thinking & Reasoning, 3, 257-299. pdf

Raoelison, M., & De Neys, W. (2019). Do we de-bias ourselves?: The impact of repeated presentation on the bat-and-ball problem. Judgment and Decision Making, 14, 170-178. pdf

Bago, B., Raoelison, M., & De Neys, W. (2019). Second-guess: Testing the specificity of error detection in the bat-and-ball problem. Acta Psychologica, 193, 214-228. pdf

Bago, B., Frey, D., Vidal, J., Houdé, O., Borst, G., & De Neys, W. (2018). Fast and slow thinking: Electrophysiological evidence for early conflict sensitivity. Neuropsychologia, 117, 483-490. pdf

Pennycook, G., De Neys, W., Evans, J. St. B.T., Stanovich, K. E., Thompson, V. (2018). The mythical dual-process typology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 667-668. pdf

Vartanian, O., Beatty, E. L., Smith, I., Blackler, K., Lam, Q., Forbes, S., & De Neys, W. (2018). The reflective mind: Examining individual differences in susceptibility to base rate neglect with fmri. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1011-1022. pdf

Brisson, J., Schaeken, W., Markovits, H., & De Neys, W. (2018). Conflict detection and logical complexity. Psychologica Belgica, 58, 318-333. pdf

Frey, D., Johnson, E. D., & De Neys, W. (2018). Individual differences in conflict detection during reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1188-1208. pdf

Lanoë, C., Lubin, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G., & De Neys, W. (2017). Grammatical attraction error detection in children and adults. Cognitive Development, 44, 127-138. pdf

De Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2017). Split-second trustworthiness detection from faces in an economic game. Experimental Psychology, 64, 231-239. pdf

Frey D., Bago, B., & De Neys, W. (2017). Commentary: Seeing the conflict: an attentional account of reasoning errors. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1284. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01284. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., Hopfensitz, A., & De Neys, W. (2017). Can we detect cooperators by looking at their face? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 276-281. pdf

Bialek, M., & De Neys, W. (2017). Dual processes and moral conflict: Evidence for deontological reasoners’ intuitive utilitarian sensitivity. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 148-167. pdf

Bago, B., & De Neys, W. (2017). Fast logic?: Examining the time course assumption of dual process theory. Cognition, 158, 90-109. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., Hopfensitz, A., & De Neys, W. (2017). Trustworthiness perception at zero acquaintance: consensus, accuracy, and prejudice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 24-25. pdf

Bialek, M., & De Neys, W. (2016). Conflict detection during moral decision making: Evidence for deontic reasoners’ utilitarian sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 631-639. pdf

Frey, D., De Neys, W., & Bago, B. (2016). The jury of intuition: Conflict detection and intuitive processing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5, 335-337. pdf

Johnson, E. D., Tubau, E., & De Neys, W. (2016). The doubting System 1: Evidence for automatic substitution sensitivity. Acta Psychologica, 164, 56-64. pdf

Lubin, A., Houdé, O., & De Neys, W. (2015). Evidence for children's error sensitivity during arithmetic word problem solving. Learning and Instruction, 40, 1-8. pdf

Simon, G. Lubin, A., Houdé, O. & De Neys, W. (2015). Anterior cingulate cortex and intuitive bias detection during number conservation. Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 158-168. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., Hopfensitz, A., & De Neys, W. (2015). Face-ism and kernels of truth in facial inferences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 421-422. pdf

De Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2015). Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults. Journal of Economic Psychology, 47, 17-22. pdf

Lubin, A., Simon, G., Houdé, O., & De Neys, W. (2015). Inhibition, conflict detection, and number conservation. ZDM Mathematics Education, 47, 793-800. pdf

Mevel, K., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Simon, G., Houdé, O., & De Neys, W. (2015). Bias detection: response confidence evidence for conflict sensitivity in the ratio bias task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 227-237. pdf

De Neys, W. (2014). Conflict detection, dual processes, and logical intuitions: Some clarifications. Thinking & Reasoning, 20, 169-187. pdf

Trémolière, B., & De Neys, W. (2014). When intuitions are helpful: prior beliefs can support reasoning in the bat-and-ball problem. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 486-490.pdf

De Neys, W., Lubin, A., & Houdé, O. (2014). The smart non-conserver: Preschoolers detect their number conservation errors. Child Development Research. doi:10.1155/2014/768186. pdf

Trémolière, B., De Neys, W., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2014). The Grim Reasoner: Analytical Reasoning under Mortality Salience. Thinking & Reasoning, 20, 333-351. pdf

Bonnefond, M., Kaliuzhna, M., Van der Henst, J. B, & De Neys, W. (2014). Disabling conditional inferences: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 56, 255-262. pdf

De Neys, W., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2013). The whys and whens of individual differences in thinking biases. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 172-178. pdf

De Neys, W., & Feremans, V. (2013). Development of heuristic bias detection in elementary school. Developmental Psychology, 49, 258-69. pdf

De Neys, W., Rossi, S., & Houdé, O. (2013). Bats, balls, and substitution sensitivity: Cognitive misers are no happy fools. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 269-273. pdf

De Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2013). Low second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts indiscriminate social suspicion, not improved trustworthiness detection. Biology Letters, 9, 20130037. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0037. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., Hopfensitz, A., & De Neys, W. (2013). The modular nature of trustworthiness detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 143-150. pdf

Lesage, E., Navarette, G., & De Neys, W. (2013). Evolutionary modules and Bayesian facilitation: The role of general cognitive resources. Thinking & Reasoning, 19, 27-53. pdf

Van Lier, J., Revlin, R., & De Neys, W. (2013). Detecting cheaters without thinking: Testing the automaticity of the cheater detection module. PloS ONE, 8, e53827. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053827. pdf

Trémolière, B., & De Neys, W. (2013). Methodological concerns in moral judgment research: Severity of harm shapes moral decisions. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 989-993. pdf

De Neys, W. (2012). Bias and conflict: A case for logical intuitions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 28-38. pdf

Trémolière, B., De Neys, W., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2012). Mortality salience and morality: Thinking about death makes people less utilitarian. Cognition, 124, 379-384.

Steegen, S., & De Neys, W. (2012). Belief inhibition in children’s reasoning: Memory-based evidence. Journal of Expermental Child Psychology, 112, 231-242. pdf

De Neys, W., Novitskiy, N., Geeraerts, L., Ramautar, J., & Wagemans, J. (2011). Cognitive control and individual differences in economic ultimatum decision-making. PLoS ONE, 6, e27107. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027107. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., Feeney, A., & De Neys, W. (2011). The risk of polite misunderstandings. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 321-324.

De Neys, W. (2011). The freak in all of us: Logical truth seeking without argumentation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 75-76. pdf

De Neys, W., & Vanderputte, K. (2011). When less is not always more: Stereotype knowledge and reasoning development. Developmental Psychology, 47, 432-441. pdf

De Neys, W., Cromheeke, S., & Osman, M. (2011). Biased but in doubt: Conflict and decision confidence. PLoS ONE, e15954. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015954. pdf

De Neys, W., Moyens, E., & Vansteenwegen, D. (2010). Feeling we’re biased: Autonomic arousal and reasoning conflict. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 208-216. pdf

De Neys, W., & Franssens, S. (2009). Belief inhibition during thinking: Not always winning but at least taking part. Cognition, 113, 45-61. pdf

Franssens, S., & De Neys, W. (2009). The effortless nature of conflict detection during thinking. Thinking & Reasoning, 15, 105-128. pdf

De Neys, W. (2009). Beyond response output: More logical than we think. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 87-88. pdf

De Neys, W., & Van Gelder, E. (2009). Logic and belief across the life span: The rise and fall of belief inhibition during syllogistic reasoning. Developmental Science, 12, 123-130. pdf

De Neys, W., Vartanian, O., & Goel, V. (2008). Smarter than we think: When our brains detect that we are biased. Psychological Science, 19, 483-489. pdf

De Neys, W., & Glumicic, T. (2008). Conflict monitoring in dual process theories of reasoning. Cognition, 106, 1248-1299. pdf

De Neys, W., & Everaerts, D. (2008). Developmental trends in everyday conditional reasoning: The retrieval and inhibition interplay. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 252-263. pdf

De Neys, W. (2007). Nested sets and base rate neglect: Two types of reasoning?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 260-261. pdf

De Neys, W., & Schaeken, W. (2007). When people are more logical under cognitive load: Dual task impact on scalar implicature. Experimental Psychology, 54, 128-133. pdf

De Neys, W. (2006). Dual processing in reasoning: Two systems but one reasoner. Psychological Science, 17, 428-433. pdf

De Neys, W. (2006). Automatic-heuristic and executive-analytic processing in reasoning: Chronometric and dual task considerations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1070-1100. pdf

De Neys, W., & Verschueren, N. (2006). Working memory capacity and a notorious brain teaser: The case of the Monty Hall Dilemma. Experimental Psychology, 53, 123-131. pdf

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2005). Working memory and everyday conditional reasoning: Retrieval and inhibition of stored counterexamples. Thinking & Reasoning, 11, 349-381. pdf

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2005). Working memory and counterexample retrieval for causal conditionals. Thinking & Reasoning, 11, 123-150. pdf

Dieussaert, K., De Neys, W., & Schaeken, W. (2005). Suppression and belief revision, two sides of the same coin?. Psychologica Belgica, 45, 29-46.

Verschueren, N., Schaeken, W., De Neys, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (2004). The difference between generating counterexamples and using them during reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, A57, 1285-1308.

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2003). Inference suppression and semantic memory retrieval: Every counterexample counts. Memory & Cognition, 31, 581-595. pdf

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2003). Causal conditional reasoning and strength of association: The disabling condition case. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 161-176. pdf

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2002). Causal conditional reasoning and semantic memory retrieval: A test of the semantic memory framework. Memory & Cognition, 30, 908-920. pdf

De Neys, W., d’Ydewalle, G., Schaeken, W., & Vos, G. (2002). A Dutch, computerized, and group administrable adaptation of the operation span test. Psychologica Belgica, 42, 177-190. pdf

Dieussaert, K., Schaeken, W., De Neys, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2000). Initial belief state as a predictor of belief revision. Current Psychology of Cognition, 19, 277-288.

De Neys, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2000). Verbeelding en hersenen: Overzicht en kritiek van de hersenbenadering in het verbeeldingsdebat [Imagery and brain: An overview and critique of the brain-based approach of the imagery debate]. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie, 55, 66-85.

De Neys, W. (in press). The cognitive unconscious and dual process theories of reasoning. In A. S. Reber & R. Allen (Eds.), The Cognitive Unconscious: The First Fifty Years. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

De Neys, W. (in press). Bias, conflict, and fast logic: Towards a hybrid dual process future. In L. Ball, Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning. Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Rossi, S., & De Neys, W. (in press). Détection de conflit chez l’adulte et l’adolescent. In E. Sander (Ed.), Les Logiques de la Pensée. Paris, France: Odile Jacob.

Frey, D., & De Neys, W. (2022). Reasoning bias and dual process theory: Developmental considerations and current directions In O. Houdé & G. Borst. G (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development (pp.472-480). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Trémolière, B., De Neys, W., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2019). Reasoning and moral judgment: A common experimental toolbox. In L. J. Ball & V. A. Thompson (Eds.), International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. pdf

De Neys, W. (2017). Bias, conflict, and fast logic : Towards a hybrid dual process future ?. In W. De Neys (Ed.), Dual Process Theory 2.0 (pp. 47-65). Oxon, UK: Routledge. pdf

De Neys, W., & Bialek, M. (2017). Dual processes and conflict during moral and logical reasoning: A case for utilitarian intuitions? In B. Trémolière & J. F. Bonnefon (Eds.), Moral Inferences (pp. 123-136). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. pdf

De Neys, W. (2015). Heuristic bias and conflict detection during thinking. In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, (pp. 1-32). Burlington: Academic Press. pdf

De Neys, W. (2013). Conflict , arousal, and logical gut feelings. In I. Blanchette (Ed.), Emotion and Reasoning (pp. 84-94). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. pdf

De Neys, W. (2013). Heuristics, biases, and the development of conflict detection during reasoning. In H. Markovits (Ed.), The Developmental Psychology of Reasoning and Decision Making (pp. 130-147). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. pdf

De Neys, W., & Goel, V. (2011). Heuristics and biases in the brain: Dual neural pathways for decision making. In O. Vartanian & D. R. Mandel (Eds.), Neuroscience of Decision Making (pp.125-141). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. pdf

De Neys, W. (2007). Development of decision making: The case of the Monty Hall Dilemma. In J. A. Elsworth (Ed.), Psychology of Decision Making in Education, Behavior, and High Risk Situations (pp. 271-281). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. pdf

Bonnefon, J. F., De Neys, W., & Feeney, A (2011). Processing scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 33, 3389-3394.

De Neys, W., Novitskiy, N., Ramautar, J., & Wagemans, J. (2010). What makes a good reasoner?: Brain potentials and heuristic bias susceptibility. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 32, 1020-1025.

De Neys, W. (2007). Implicit conflict detection during decision making. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 29, 209-214.

De Neys, W., & Schaeken, W. (2006). Effortful pragmatics: The demanding nature of implicatures. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 28, 178-183.

De Neys, W., & Dieussaert, K. (2005). Individual differences in rational thinking time. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 27, 577-582.

De Neys, W. (2004). Smarter and richer?: Executive processing and the Monty Hall Dilemma. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26, 285-290.

De Neys, W., Dieussaert, K., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2004). Inference suppression and working memory capacity: Inhibition of the disabler search. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26, 291-296.

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2003). Working memory and everyday conditional reasoning: A trend analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 25, 312-317.

Verschueren, N., De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2002). Working memory capacity and the nature of generated counterexamples. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 24, 914-919.

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2001). ‘Does pure water boil, when it’s heated to 100°C?’: The associative strength of disabling conditions in conditional reasoning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 23, 249-254.