TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bruckmaier, Georg
A1  - Krauss, Stefan
A1  - Binder, Karin
A1  - Hilbert, Sven Lars
A1  - Brunner, Martin
T1  - Tversky and Kahneman’s cognitive illusions
BT  - who can solve them, and why?
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - In the present paper we empirically investigate the psychometric properties of some of the most famous statistical and logical cognitive illusions from the "heuristics and biases" research program by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who nearly 50 years ago introduced fascinating brain teasers such as the famous Linda problem, the Wason card selection task, and so-called Bayesian reasoning problems (e.g., the mammography task). In the meantime, a great number of articles has been published that empirically examine single cognitive illusions, theoretically explaining people's faulty thinking, or proposing and experimentally implementing measures to foster insight and to make these problems accessible to the human mind. Yet these problems have thus far usually been empirically analyzed on an individual-item level only (e.g., by experimentally comparing participants' performance on various versions of one of these problems). In this paper, by contrast, we examine these illusions as a group and look at the ability to solve them as a psychological construct. Based on an sample of N = 2,643 Luxembourgian school students of age 16-18 we investigate the internal psychometric structure of these illusions (i.e., Are they substantially correlated? Do they form a reflexive or a formative construct?), their connection to related constructs (e.g., Are they distinguishable from intelligence or mathematical competence in a confirmatory factor analysis?), and the question of which of a person's abilities can predict the correct solution of these brain teasers (by means of a regression analysis).
KW  - statistical reasoning
KW  - logical thinking
KW  - cognitive illusion
KW  - Monty Hall
KW  - problem
KW  - Wason task
KW  - Linda problem
KW  - hospital problem
KW  - Bayesian reasoning
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584689
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 12
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Binder, Karin
A1  - Thielscher, Wolfgang
A1  - Rode, Jürgen
T1  - Sportkartei 5.-10. : Bd. 7 Fitnessübungen
Y1  - 1997
SN  - 3-89291-850-3
VL  - 7
PB  - pb-Verl.
CY  - Puchheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Metz, Anna-Marie
A1  - Binder, Karin
T1  - Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung als Ansatzpunkte für eine gesundheitsfördernde Hochschule - Universität Potsdam
Y1  - 1999
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Binder, Karin
T1  - Gesundheitsförderung in der beruflichen Bildung
Y1  - 1999
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Binder, Karin
T1  - Gesundheitsförderung im Berufsschulsport
Y1  - 2000
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Metz, Anna-Marie
A1  - Binder, Karin
T1  - Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung als Ansatzpunkt für eine gesundheitsförderliche Hochschule
Y1  - 2000
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Binder, Karin
A1  - Metz, Anna-Marie
T1  - Von der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung zur gesundheitsförderlichen Hochschule
Y1  - 2001
SN  - 3-8142-0785-8
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Baumgart, Ute
A1  - Binder, Karin
A1  - Ceglarek, Petra
A1  - Degener, Mirko
A1  - Henrich, Ruth
A1  - Herboth, Jörg
A1  - Höhne, Janet
A1  - Krieger, Helga
A1  - Lohwaßer, Roswitha
A1  - Metz, Anna-Marie
A1  - Piotrowski, Horst
A1  - Rode, Jürgen
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Gesundheitsförderung an der Hochschule
T3  - Schriftenreihe des VDSI
Y1  - 2001
SN  - 3-929526-63-8
VL  - 21
PB  - Schubert
CY  - Leipzig
ER  -