Abstract
Riddles can teach us psychology when we stop to consider the psychological principles that make them “work”. This paper studies a particular class of riddles that we call stumpers, and provides analysis of the various principles (some familiar, some novel) that inhibit most people from finding the correct solution – or any solution – even though they find the answers obvious ex post. We restrict our analysis to four stumpers, propose the psychological antecedents of each, and provide experimental support for our conjectures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 112-122 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Judgment and Decision Making |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2018 |
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Publisher Copyright:© 2018. The authors license this article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Keywords
- Cognitive economy
- Gender stereotypes
- Grice
- Representation
- Riddles
- Situation models
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