Stanovich and West's dual-system proposals represent a major development in an understanding of reasoning and rationality. We feel, however, that they their notion of System-1 functioning as a computational escape hatch during the processing of complex tasks may deserve a more central role in explanations of reasoning performance. We describe examples of apparent escape-hatch processing from the reasoning and judgement literature.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BBS The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (5), pp 667-668 2000, © 2000 Cambridge University Press.
