“…Selfcontrol (e.g., Lattimore & Maxwell, 2004 ;Wegner, Erber, & Zanakos, 1993 ), processing of negated stimuli (Deutsch et al 2009 ), social judgments and attributions (Gilbert et al, 1988 ;Krull & Erickson, 1995 ;Trope & Alfi eri, 1997 ), moral judgments (Greene, Morelli, Lowenberg, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2008 ), and general reasoning (De Neys, 2006 ) have all proven to be impaired by cognitive load in ways that are consistent with the RIM's predictions. The idea that working memory resources may also play a role in refl ective processing has been tested in several studies, both by comparing individuals with dispositionally high or low working memory capacities (Hofmann, Gschwendner, Friese, Wiers, & Schmitt, 2008 ;Thush et al, 2008 ) and by specifi cally taxing resources of working memory (Deutsch et al, 2009 ). The conceptualization of working memory as "a domain-free limitation in ability to control attention" (Engle, 2002 , p. 19) points to the conclusion that the effects of attentional cognitive load manipulations on refl ective processing may be mediated by working memory capacity.…”