Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the existing literature, perspectives on intuition have been remarkably diverse. Some authors have described intuition as a sophisticated unconscious mechanism, while others have argued that it is based on simple automatic principles. Considering this conceptual ambiguity, the current dissertation presents a meta-perspective on intuitive-automatic phenomena by exploring the field’s conceptual boundaries. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the core features of intuition as identified in the literature. Chapter 2 traces the development of different theoretical perspectives on intuition, outlining the major theories and key ideas that have influenced them. Chapter 3 then presents a modern adaptation of a classic measurement approach that has been used in the study of intuition and insight problem-solving. In Chapter 4, the relationships between this instrument and other prominent measures are explored, as well as their associations with personality traits and cognitive abilities. The findings suggest that intuition is a diversely operationalized construct, with existing measures capturing a variety of cognitive phenomena that are, for the most part, unrelated. Accordingly, Chapter 5 concludes by discussing the central challenges in conceptualizing intuition as a research construct.
Author: Löffler, Charlotte S.
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7082315299