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Are Fast Thinkers Smarter?

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Are Fast Thinkers Smarter? The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brains and intelligence of 92 people. All the participants took standard IQ tests. Do geniuses think

Is System 1 Or System 2 Better?

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Is System 1 Or System 2 Better? System 1 is intuitive, fast, automatic, effortless, implicit and emotional. System 2 is slow, more deliberative, logical, and requiring effort and energy. Is System 1 or System 2 lazy? One striking observation from Kahneman’s research is that although System 2 is far more reliable than System 1, System