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Background: Cognitive misers are no happy fools. Earlier $ndings (1) came to this conclusion by assessing people's sensitivity to attribute substitution, which they de$ned as the situation that occurs when we are confronted with a problem that demands greater cognitive effort, for which we rely on automatic and intuitive processes that substitute the complex situation for an easier one. Methods: Through the exploration of the "bat-and-ball" problem, (2) De Neys, Rossi, and Houdé (1) found that participants were indeed sensitive to the substitution bias. Speci$cally, participants who incorrectly answered the question that gave rise to the substitution bias were signi$cantly less con$dent in their answer relative to their answer on a control problem that did not give rise to the substitution. Using the same methods, we conducted a direct replication study on a sample of 264 undergraduate psychology students. Results and Conclusion: Our results suggest that we successfully replicated the original conclusions; participants who answered by substituting the di#cult question for an easier one signi$cantly (p<.0001) decreased their con$dence ratings on the version of the problem that gave rise to the substitution bias, relative to the problem that did not. Limitations: Though there may have been limitations, it seems that we are sensitive to attribute substitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]