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How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful-and often amazing-insights, it can also dangerously mislead us. Drawing on recent psychological research, Myers discusses the powers and perils of intuition when: ?Ø judges and jurors determine who is telling the truth; ?Ø mental health workers predict whether someone is at risk for suicide or crime; ?Ø coaches, players, and fans decide who has the hot hand or the hot bat; ?Ø personnel directors hire new employees; ?Ø psychics claim to be clairvoyant or to have premonitions; ?Ø and much more.… (altro)
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The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. --Pascal, Pensées, 1670
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool --Proverbs 28:26
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(Introduction): As a research psychologist and communicator of psychological science, I have spent a career pondering the connections between subjective and objective truth, between feeling and fact, between intuition and reality.
Has anyone ever told you that you are amazing?
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Perhaps we can anchor ourselves in a rationality and humility that restrains spiritual intuition with critical analysis, and in a spirtiualitythat nurtures purpose, love, and joy.
(Epilogue): My sense of wonder at my own experience is perhaps akin to that of the Psalmist's:
The word is not even on my tongue, Yahweh, before you know all about it ... Such knowledge is beyond my understanding ... a height to which my mind cannot attain ... For all these mysteries I thank you: for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works.
How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful-and often amazing-insights, it can also dangerously mislead us. Drawing on recent psychological research, Myers discusses the powers and perils of intuition when: ?Ø judges and jurors determine who is telling the truth; ?Ø mental health workers predict whether someone is at risk for suicide or crime; ?Ø coaches, players, and fans decide who has the hot hand or the hot bat; ?Ø personnel directors hire new employees; ?Ø psychics claim to be clairvoyant or to have premonitions; ?Ø and much more.
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