ABSTRACT

When investigating literature in intuitive decision making one will often find references or applications of a dual-systems approach (Stanovich & West, 2000). Within this framework intuition is viewed as the counterpart of rationality, and the two information-processing systems are thought to be largely independent. As pointed out by Glöckner and Witteman (chapter 1, this volume), a wide variety of cognitive mechanisms might be involved in intuitive decision making, ranging from simple learning mechanisms to the construction of complex mental representations. What they all seem to have in common is that their influence on decision making is largely automatic.