Don't trust your intuition

When Should Consumers and Managers Trust Their Intuition? KARDES WHEN TO TRUST INTUITION

Ambady, Krabbenhoft, Hogan, and Rosenthal (2006) demonstrated that “thin slices” or very brief observations of behavior are not only sufficient for drawing accurate automatic trait inferences, they actually improve accuracy, relative to inferences based on larger amounts of information. Too much information, too much knowledge, or too much analysis can reduce the accuracy of intuitive judgment....

Losing Your Gut Feelings. Intuition in Depression

Whereas in basic research, intuition has become a topic of great interest, clinical research and depression research in specific have not applied to the topic of intuition, yet. This is astonishing because a well-known phenomenon during depression is that patients have difficulties to judge and decide. In contrast to healthy individuals who take most daily life decisions intuitively (Kahneman, ...

Deciding analytically or trusting your intuition ?

Know Your Members' Trust

This paper outlines the findings of a survey on trust, captured through attitude, experience, behaviour and expectation, of members in a Government run online support network. Overall, the results show that participants have high expectations for the behaviour of others in the community, expecting them to be trustworthy, helpful and supportive. There is a gap, however, between the respondents‟ ...

Don't trust your gut.

Making high-stakes business decisions has always been hard. But in recent decades, it's become tougher than ever. The choices facing managers and the data requiring analysis have multiplied even as the time for analyzing them has shrunk. One simple decision-making tool, human intuition, seems to offer a reliable alternative to painstaking fact gathering and analysis. Encouraged by scientific re...