ABSTRACT
Intuition has become the “black box” of modern psychology. By their very nature, intuitive judgments elude analysis; although many people share a cultural under-standing of what it is to be intuitive, describing, quantifying, and modeling the process of intuition have proved to be much more difcult. Indeed, early models of cognition ignored intuition altogether, postulating that all judgments were based on reasoned, statistically analytic processes (e.g., Janis & Mann, 1977; von Neumann & Morgenstern, 1944). Gradually, however, intuition has become more and more central in the understanding of cognitive processes (T. Betsch, chap. 1, this volume).
