The sense of coherence

What guides reasoning and thinking? Once we think of something, how do we know that our thoughts make sense? How do we know which thoughts are important and what reasoning is reasonable? The present chapter focuses on a sense that guides our inner thought in these questions, namely the sense of coherence. First, I outline that the sense of coherence often comes in the form of intuitions, and describe how these intuitions can be explored in the laboratory. Then, I review several recent lines of research that explore the underlying driving mechanisms of coherence intuitions.