Response generation, not response execution, influences feelings of rightness in reasoning.

It has been argued that the experience of (i.e., the ability to quickly generate an initial response) during processing influences one's likelihood of engaging reflectively when reasoning.

Thinking in a foreign language distorts allocation of cognitive effort: Evidence from reasoning.

Bilinguals, in their foreign language, are spared from several decision-making biases. We examined this "Foreign Language Effect" in the context of logical reasoning, in which reasoners are required to track the logical status of a syllogism, ignoring its believability. Across three experiments, we found the reverse Foreign Language Effect; foreign language reasoners are less able to evaluate the logical structure of syllogisms, but no less biased by their believability.

Can change detection succeed when change localization fails?

Statistical summary representations (SSRs) are thought to be computed by the visual system to provide a rapid summary of the properties of sets of similar objects. Recently, it has been suggested that a change in the statistical properties of a set can be identified even when changes to the individual items comprising the set cannot. Haberman and Whitney (2011) showed that subjects were correctly able to report which of 2 consecutively presented sets of faces was, on average, happier, even when participants were unable to localize any of the items contributing to this change.