EAN: 9783319181752

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIF...

This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought. It presents an
up-to-date scientific model on how the non-conscious and intuitive thought processes work in
human beings. The model is based on mainstream theorizing on intuition  as well as qualitative
meta-analysis of the empirical data available in the research literature. It combines recent
work in the fields of philosophy of mind  cognitive psychology and positive psychology. While
systematic research in intuition is relatively new  there is an abundance of positions
advocating more or less imaginative ideas of what intuition is about  ranging from quantum
mechanical phenomena to new age ideologies. Research in the past few decades  in particular by
proponents of the dual processing theory of thought such as Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Evans
offers powerful tools to address and evaluate the question of intuition without the need to
resort to spiritual entities. Within the framework of the dual processing theory  backed up by
findings in positive psychology  intuition turns out to be the capacity to carry out complex
cognitive operations within a specific domain of operations familiar to the agent.

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