Why your gut and dashboard need each other. Balancing gut feelings with hard data isn’t a soft skill.

A new series of experiments suggests that people consistently view slow, deliberative thinking as a sign of higher intelligence and reliability compared to fast, intuitive thinking, even when both ...

Imagine the director of a big company announcing an important decision and justifying it with it being based on a gut feeling. This would be met with disbelief—surely important decisions have to be ...

Modern life’s information overload leaves people uncertain. Here we examine how intuition, mindfulness and reflective conversations help interpret choices beyond pure analytics.

Here’s a simple test of reasoning ability: “A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?” (Pennycook et al., 2015). If your answer was “10 ...

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, we’ve all been sternly warned about the risks of employing intuition when making important decisions. In his book Blink, ...

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

Religious beliefs are not linked to intuition or rational thinking, according to a new study. Previous studies have suggested people who hold strong religious beliefs are more intuitive and less ...

What is your position if you pass the second person in a race? While “first place” immediately comes to mind for most of us, only some of us pause, reflect and realize this intuitive answer to be ...