Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioural sciences.

The concept of intuition has, until recently, received scant scholarly attention within and beyond the psychological sciences, despite its potential to unify a number of lines of inquiry. Presently, the literature on intuition is conceptually underdeveloped and dispersed across a range of domains of...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28
Autores principales: Hodgkinson, Gerard P., Langan-Fox, Janice, Sadler-Smith, Eugene
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell February 2008
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Sumario:The concept of intuition has, until recently, received scant scholarly attention within and beyond the psychological sciences, despite its potential to unify a number of lines of inquiry. Presently, the literature on intuition is conceptually underdeveloped and dispersed across a range of domains of application, from education, to management, to health. In this article, we clarify and distinguish intuition from related constructs, such, as insight, and review a number of theoretical models that attempt to unify cognition and affect Intuition's place within a broader conceptual framework that distinguishes between two fundamental types of human information processing is explored. We examine recent evidence from the field of social cognitive neuroscience that identifies the potential neural correlates of these separate systems and conclude by identifying a number of theoretical and methodological challenges associated with the valid and reliable assessment of intuition as a basis for future research in this burgeoning field of inquiry. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.