CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING INTUITION: A REVIEW OF RECENT TRENDS

摘要

Discussion surrounding intuition has burgeoned in a variety of arenas in re?cent years. In popular writings, for example, a number of authors have pointed to the role that intuition may play in organizational and managerial decision making (e.g. Gigerenzer, 2007; Gladwell, 2005; Klein, 2003; Myers, 2002). Concurrently, there has been an outpouring of academic research directed to?ward understanding intuition, mirroring interest in psychology in automaticity (Bargh and Chartrand, 1999) and dual-process theories (e.g. Epstein, 2002; Kahneman, 2003; Sloman, 1996). Emerging research has centered on (1) what intuition is (e.g. Dane and Pratt, 2007; Hodgkinson, Langan-Fox and Sadler-Smith, 2008; Kahneman, 2003; Lieberman, 2000; Sadler-Smith and Shefy, 2007; Shirley and Langan-Fox, 1996; Sinclair, Sadler-Smith and Hodgkinson, 2009); (2) the factors that prompt individuals to trust and use it (e.g. Denes?Raj and Epstein, 1994; Epstein, 2002; Hodgkinson, Langan-Fox and Sadler-Smith, 2008; Hodgkinson and Sadler-Smith, 2003); and (3) the factors that account for when intuition should be used, especially in terms of when it is as or more effective than analytical decision making (e.g. Dane and Pratt, 2007; Hogarth, 2001; Khatri and Ng, 2000). In addition to growth in these concep?tual areas, there has also been a wide range of methods proposed to examine intuition and intuitive processes.