Solving stumpers, CRT and CRAT: Are the abilities related?

Maya Bar-Hillel; Tom Noah; Shane Frederick

doi:10.1017/s1930297500004927

Solving stumpers, CRT and CRAT: Are the abilities related?

Maya Bar-Hillel^*
, Tom Noah
, Shane Frederick

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Bar-Hillel, Noah and Frederick (2018) studied a class of riddles they called stumpers, which have simple, but curiously elusive, solutions. A canonical example is: “Andy is Bobbie’s brother, but Bobbie is not Andy’s brother. How come?” Though not discussed there, we found that the ability to solve stumpers correlates significantly with performance on items resembling the CRT (Cognitive Reflection Test) but not with performance on items from the CRAT (Compound Remote Associates Test). We report those results here.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	620-623
Number of pages	4
Journal	Judgment and Decision Making
Volume	14
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500004927
State	Published - Sep 2019

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Keywords

CRAT
CRT
Cognitive ability
Insight problems
Problem solving
Representation
Riddles
Stumpers

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