The role of intuition and deliberative thinking in experts' superior tactical decision-making

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-78

  Moxley, Jerad H ^a   Anders Ericsson, K ^a   Charness, Neil ^a   Krampe, Ralf T ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chess; Decision making; Deliberate practice; Dual process theories; Expertise; Intuition; Problem solving; Search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; DELIBERATIVE THINKING; GAME; HUMAN; INTUITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SKILL; THINKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING;

EID: 84861233058     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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