Intuition
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Conditions for intuitive expertise: a failure to disagree.

30 Aug 2009 This article reports on an effort to explore the differences between two approaches to intuition and expertise that are often viewed as conflicting: heuristics and biases (HB) and naturalistic decision making (NDM). Starting from the obvious fact ... Read more...

Swinging into thought: directed movement guides insight in problem solving.

30 Jul 2009 Can directed actions unconsciously influence higher order cognitive processing? We investigated how movement interventions affected participants' ability to solve a classic insight problem. The participants attempted to solve Maier's two-string ... Read more...

Beyond the consulting room: intuition and intersubjectivity in journal peer review.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The manuscript review process is a central part of medicine, but has become increasingly the subject of criticism. A frequent claim is that the process is insufficiently objective and that it is inconsistent in its capacity to assess ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intuition'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Physician-assisted suicide. 29 Sep 2009
• Conditions for intuitive expertise: a failure to disagree. 30 Aug 2009
• Swinging into thought: directed movement guides insight in problem solving. 30 Jul 2009
• Beyond the consulting room: intuition and intersubjectivity in journal peer review. 30 Jul 2009
• Intuition through time: what does the seer see? 29 Jun 2009
• The moral obligation to create children with the best chance of the best life. 30 May 2009
• Exploring the legitimacy of intuition as a form of nursing knowledge. 30 May 2009
• Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays. 30 May 2009
• Appropriate methodologies for empirical bioethics: it's all relative. 29 Apr 2009
• Achieving a new dimension: children integrate three stimulus dimensions in volume estimations. 29 Apr 2009
• Strategies for revising judgment: how (and how well) people use others' opinions. 29 Apr 2009
• Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. 29 Apr 2009
• Intuition and deliberation: two systems for strategizing in the brain. 22 Apr 2009
• How we know our own minds: the relationship between mindreading and metacognition. 30 Mar 2009
• Perceptions of randomness: why three heads are better than four. 30 Mar 2009
• The danger of trial-by-trial knowledge of results in perceptual averaging studies. 30 Mar 2009
• Mitigating knowledge loss: a strategic imperative for nurse leaders. 30 Mar 2009
• Hidden in plain sight: the formal, informal, and hidden curricula of a psychiatry clerkship. 30 Mar 2009
• The varieties of vision. 27 Feb 2009
• The perceived diversity heuristic: the case of pseudodiversity. 27 Feb 2009

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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