PROCESSING—THE DICHOTOMY, THE CONTINUUM, AND A TENTATIVE

Dual-process theories have dominated social and cognitive psychology since the 1970’s (Wason and Evans, 1975). The tenets have gone through many changes over time. This in mind, the theoretical core amounts to a dichoto-mous view of two types of processes (Figure 1A): type 1—intuitive, fast, automatic, nonconscious, effortless, contextualized, error-prone, and type 2—reflective, slow, deliberate, cogitative, effortful, decontextualized, normatively correct 1. The received view (Evans, 2012) of dual-process theories is evaluative 2; Type 2 is better: it focuses on generalizabl