ABSTRACT
T here are several different meanings attached to intuition, which has become a prominent concept in research on judgment and decision making (T. Betsch, chap. 1, this volume; Epstein, chap. 2, this volume; Gilovich, Grifn, & Kahneman, 2001; Hogarth, 2001). In the context of dual-process theories (Chaiken & Trope, 1999), intuitive processing may be considered an opposite of systematic processing, or intuition appears as an affective processing style that is driven by feelings rather than arguments and reasons (C. Betsch, 2006; Haidt & Kesebir, chap. 13, this volume; Zeelenberg, Nelissen, & Pieters, chap. 11, this volume). In decision-making research, the notion of intuition would be applied to bounded rationality due to limited resources (H. A. Simon, 1956). In the area of metacognition, intuition could refer to the absence of monitoring and control processes. Some researchers have even come to consider intuition a personality trait (C. Betsch, 2004; chap. 14, this volume; Epstein, chap. 2, this volume; Epstein, Pacini, Denes-Raj, & Heier, 1996; Scott & Bruce, 1985).
