Intuitive and heuristic judgment - Different processes? Presentation of a German version of the rational-experiential inventory and of new self-report scales of heuristic use

In this paper we present a German scale assessing intuitive and rational pr ocessing (a translation of the Rational-Experiential Inventory [REI]; Epste in, Pacini, Denes-Raj & Heier, 1996) as well as new scales assessing the us e and evaluation of various persuasion heuristics. The German REI is shown to have good item characteristics and high reliability and to replicate the two-dimensional structure of the original scale with its subscales faith i n intuition and need for cognition. Both dimensions are independent of soci al desirability, and correlations with various personality traits speak to their construct validity. Further results indicate differences in the self- reported use of different persuasion heuristics contingent on the need for cognition and faith in intuition that hint at a differentiation of associat ive and rule based heuristic processes. In addition, the correlational patt erns suggest a conceptual distinction between heuristic and intuitive proce ssing.