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Motives & Decision Patterns

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Intuition, Gut Feelings & Fast Judgment

A gut feeling can signal hard-won expertise, or a convincing mistake. Discover when fast judgment deserves trust, when body signals mislead us and how to tell intuition from bias.

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  1. 01

    What Intuition Actually Is

    Intuition is not magic and not simply bias. Psychology shows how fast judgments can emerge from patterns, heuristics, emotion and learned experience.

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  2. 02

    When Experts Can Trust Their Gut

    Expert intuition can be excellent or badly wrong. Kahneman and Klein identified the conditions that separate trained intuition from confident guessing.

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  3. 03

    Somatic Markers: Can the Body Guide Decisions?

    The somatic marker hypothesis says bodily signals help guide difficult decisions. The Iowa Gambling Task made the idea famous, but the evidence is more contested than popular summaries suggest.

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    Intuition vs Bias: How Do You Tell the Difference?

    A gut feeling and a bias can feel equally certain. Use domain validity, feedback, body signals and verification to decide how much trust a fast judgment deserves.

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