I hope they'll build on this research as there are benefits and costs to both thinking styles, and as you say there could be great value in knowing which when to make use of which thinking mode, rather than designating one as The Right Way and expecting people to always use it.

By the way I think you might find this paper of interest - about social dilemmas rather than cognitive styles, but I wonder if the results might not be rooted in the same sort of implicit assumption/intuition that you're positing.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600451