ABSTRACT
T he term intuition has its history outside of psychology. Specifically, there is wide popular agreement that intuition is an important quality of human judgments. Intuitive judgments are seen as a capacity to reach insights on ways that are “more direct,” “based on feelings,” and “effortless” (Myers, 2002). In addition, people have an immediate sense of validity that is associated with the judgment. Wherever they come from, people trust their “gut feelings” more than the outcome of complex inferences. Although intuition is an idea that everybody appears to understand (at least intuitively), the meaning of intuition as a scientific concept is less clear.
