A study reports that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to ...

WASHINGTON — If there’s one thing intuition can’t tell you, it’s just how intuitive you actually are. A new study from the University of Kent School of Psychology found that people who thought they ...

Two doctors describe the role of intuition in medical decision-making as a case study into the mysterious power of this unquantifiable form of knowledge. Doctors are expected to make high-stakes ...

Thinking too hard about complex decisions, such as choosing a car, may lead to worse choices, scientists say. In a set of four studies, researchers found that "deliberation without attention" — an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mr. Dibblee was led into researches into the nature of intelligence, instinct, and intuition by his previous work on the “Psychology of Supply and Demand and of Economic Value” His conviction that ...

Research from Harvard University explores how instinct shapes our religious convictions here in America, where 92 percent of us believe in God PROBLEM: According to a 2008 Pew survey on religion, 92 ...