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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Family metaphors and moral intuitions: how conservatives and liberals narrate their lives.

29 Sep 2008 This research examines life-narrative interviews obtained from 128 highly religious and politically active adults to test differences between political conservatives and liberals on (a) implicit family metaphors (G. Lakoff, 2002) and (b) moral ... Read more...

Adult age differences in the realism of confidence judgments: overconfidence, format dependence, and cognitive predictors.

30 Aug 2008 Realistic confidence judgments are essential to everyday functioning, but few studies have addressed the issue of age differences in overconfidence. Therefore, the authors examined this issue with probability judgment and intuitive confidence ... Read more...

Cortical regions activated by the subjective sense of perceptual coherence of environmental sounds: a proposal for a neuroscience of intuition.

30 Aug 2008 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, intuition is "the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning." In other words, people continuously, without conscious attention, recognize patterns in the stream of ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Intuition'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Family metaphors and moral intuitions: how conservatives and liberals narrate their lives. 29 Sep 2008
• Is morality natural? 20 Sep 2008
• Reading between the number lines. 3 Sep 2008
• Folk numeracy and middle land. Why our brains do not intuitively grasp probabilities, Part 1. 30 Aug 2008
• Adult age differences in the realism of confidence judgments: overconfidence, format dependence, and cognitive predictors. 30 Aug 2008
• Cortical regions activated by the subjective sense of perceptual coherence of environmental sounds: a proposal for a neuroscience of intuition. 30 Aug 2008
• Subliminal instrumental conditioning demonstrated in the human brain. 26 Aug 2008
• Intuition and evidence. 30 Jul 2008
• Intuition: believe it or not ... but place it in your toolbox. 29 Jun 2008
• Nursing intuition and avoiding the cascade to a crisis. 29 Jun 2008
• The $10,000-a-month psychic. 28 Jun 2008
• Intuition in the context of object perception: intuitive gestalt judgments rest on the unconscious activation of semantic representations. 22 Jun 2008
• Background information on the research process. 30 May 2008
• Knowing too much: using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by others. 30 May 2008
• Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures. 28 May 2008
• Principled moral sentiment and the flexibility of moral judgment and decision making. 14 May 2008
• Person theories: their temporal stability and relation to intertrait inferences. 7 May 2008
• Overconfidence in clinical decision making. 29 Apr 2008
• Development of social category representations: early appreciation of roles and deontic relations. 29 Apr 2008
• Précis of "why think?" evolution and the rational mind. 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Intuition'

Definition: Knowing or understanding without conscious use of reasoning. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D019545

Alternative terms: Intuition;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.675;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: knowing without conscious reasoning