Intuition Dozen Deadly Sins

Hindsight bias

Falsely believing that we knew the outcome of an event all along.

Illusory correlation

Perceiving a relationship between two things when no such relationship exists.

Memory construction

Our memories can be influenced by our current mood and misinformation, leading to the formation of false memories.

Representativeness and availability heuristics

Quick mental shortcuts that can lead to illogical and incorrect judgments.

Overconfidence

Having more confidence in our knowledge than is actually warranted.

Belief perseverance and confirmation bias

Holding onto beliefs even after they have been discredited, often due to a preference for confirming information.

Framing

Judgments can change depending on how an issue or information is presented.

Interviewer illusion

Having inflated confidence in our ability to discern information based solely on an interview.

Mispredicting our own feelings

Often incorrectly predicting the intensity and duration of our emotions.

Self-serving bias

Exhibiting inflated self-assessments in various ways.

Fundamental attribution error

Overly attributing others' behavior to their dispositions while discounting situational factors.

Mispredicting our own behavior

Our intuitive predictions about our own behavior often turn out to be incorrect.

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Blindsight

Brain-damaged individuals reacting to stimuli they are not consciously aware of.

Right-brain thinking

Split-brain individuals displaying knowledge they cannot verbalize.

Infants' intuitive learning

Infants learning language and physics intuitively.

Moral intuition

Quick gut feelings that precede moral reasoning.

Divided attention and priming

Unattended information being processed by the subconscious mind.

Everyday perception

Instant processing and integration of complex information.

Automatic processing

Cognitive autopilot that guides us through most of life.

Implicit memory

Remembering how to do something without consciously knowing.

Heuristics

Fast mental shortcuts that usually serve us well.

Intuitive expertise

Unconscious learning, expert learning, and physical genius.

Creativity

Spontaneous appearance of novel and valuable ideas.

Social and emotional intelligence

Intuitive understanding and management of ourselves in social situations, as well as perceiving and expressing emotions.

The wisdom of the body

Instant emotional responses bypassing rational understanding.

Thin slices

Detecting traits from brief moments of behavior.

Dual attitude system

Having both unconscious and conscious ways of knowing and remembering, as well as gut-level and rational attitude responses.