Can people judge the veracity of their intuitions?

Leach, S.; Weick, S.

doi:10.1177/1948550617706732

Can people judge the veracity of their intuitions?

Leach, S.; Weick, S.

Authors

S. Leach

Professor Mario Weick mario.weick@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

People differ in the belief that their intuitions produce good decision outcomes. In the present research, we sought to test the validity of these beliefs by comparing individuals’ self-reports with measures of actual intuition performance in a standard implicit learning task, exposing participants to seemingly random letter strings (Studies 1a-b) and social media profile pictures (Study 2) that conformed to an underlying rule or grammar. A meta-analysis synthesising the present data (n = 400) and secondary data by Pretz, Totz, and Kaufman (2010) found that people’s enduring beliefs in their intuitions were not reflective of actual performance in the implicit learning task. Meanwhile, task-specific confidence in intuition bore no sizable relation with implicit learning performance, but the observed data favoured neither the Null hypothesis nor the Alternative hypothesis. Together, the present findings suggest that people’s ability to judge the veracity of their intuitions may be limited.

Citation

Leach, S., & Weick, S. (2018). Can people judge the veracity of their intuitions?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(1), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617706732

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 2, 2017
Online Publication Date	Jul 31, 2017
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2018
Deposit Date	Sep 12, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Sep 18, 2018
Journal	Social Psychological and Personality Science
Print ISSN	1948-5506
Electronic ISSN	1948-5514
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	9
Issue	1
Pages	40-49
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617706732
Keywords	Intuition, Implicit learning, Meta-cognition, Meta-analysis.
Related Public URLs	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/60675/

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