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Intuition [electronic resource] : its powers and perils / David G. Myers.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780300130270 (electronic bk.)
  • 0300130279 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780300095319 (alk. paper)
  • 0300095317 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intuition.DDC classification:
  • 153.4/4 21
LOC classification:
  • BF315.5 .M94 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Thinking without awareness -- Social intuition -- Intuitive expertise and creativity -- Intuitions about our past and future -- Intuitions about our competence and virtue -- Intuitions about reality -- Sports intuition -- Investment intuition -- Clinical intuition -- Interviewer intuition -- Risk intuition -- Gamblers' intuition -- Psychic intuition.
Summary: Publisher's description: How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful--and often amazing--insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-307) and index.

Thinking without awareness -- Social intuition -- Intuitive expertise and creativity -- Intuitions about our past and future -- Intuitions about our competence and virtue -- Intuitions about reality -- Sports intuition -- Investment intuition -- Clinical intuition -- Interviewer intuition -- Risk intuition -- Gamblers' intuition -- Psychic intuition.

Publisher's description: How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful--and often amazing--insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.

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