People's intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-247

  Inbar, Yoel ^a   Cone, Jeremy ^b   Gilovich, Thomas ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Intuition; Rationality; Reason

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTUITION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; MENTAL PROCESSES; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955310848     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020215     Document Type: Article

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