{"title":"An introduction to intuition theory and practice: a summary and a research agenda","authors":"M. Sinclair","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00006","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the third handbook in the intuition series by Edward Elgar Publishing. It took ten years to get to this point – and what a journey it has been. We celebrated a decade of annual intuition symposia at the Academy of Management meeting last year, where new collaborations were struck and innovative approaches to intuition research explored. It confirms that intuition is gradually entering the mainstream, as theorists and practitioners alike call for new ways to conduct business and survive in the twenty-first century. It also shows that the initial research has shifted from our original narrow focus on expert intuition using psychology-based tools to a broader investigation of topics that includes a variety of qualitative methods to offer additional richness and depth. Work in the expert stream continues on a more fine-grained scale but it is complemented by insights from other streams and disciplines, reaching as far as neuroscience, quantum physics or clinical studies. Finally, more empirical work started emerging. This does not mean that all conceptual differences have been reconciled but there is a sufficient consensus to move forward under the original premise of our intuition community to ‘agree to respectfully disagree.’ This overall development has been reflected in the progression of topics covered in the handbooks. While the first volume addressed mostly conceptual issues, the second volume reviewed an array of applicable methods underpinned by conceptual considerations. Now, with the third volume, it is time to explore what is happening at the workplace and how we can capture it for practice. This is in response to the growing concern about the existing gap between theory and practice. While new intuition theories are being developed and (sometimes) tested, very few of them are converted into practical training tools. On the other hand, intuition practitioners find it challenging to explain what works for them and their clients by the existing theory. A question arises whether these parallel views can be somehow reconciled for the benefit of all. The current handbook takes the first step in this direction. It was quite challenging to organize the included chapters into individual parts. Many of them contain several themes that bind the whole book together, making their categorization somewhat arbitrary. At the same time, this is encouraging. The fact that some contributions could be placed under multiple headings resonates with the conclusion that intuition does not function in isolation but tends to be integrated with other processes, prevalent in a multitude of professional settings. Interestingly, most of these have been discussed at the intuition symposia since the last handbook. One common theme is the interaction of intuition and reasoning, although for the latter some researchers use different terms that do not always fully overlap, such as rationality, deliberation or analysis. Sadly, this phenomenon is still mostly inve","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134142756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intuiting and reasoning: facilitating subconscious and conscious processing for better decisions in organizations","authors":"J. Woiceshyn","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00008","url":null,"abstract":"Intuition research has long recognized that decision making involves two types of mental processing: intuiting and reasoning, a view known as the dual processing model. Intuiting, or intuition, is commonly understood as rapid, unconscious mental processing based on associative pattern recognition that results in affective judgments, whereas reasoning is viewed as rational, deliberate and linear (Dane & Pratt, 2007). The dual processing model depicts these two processes as alternatives and being in tension, and decision makers as favoring one or the other (Calabretta et al., 2017; Elbanna & Child, 2007; Hodgkinson & Clarke, 2007). Researchers have observed the need to balance the two processes for effective decision making. They also recognize that we still lack a unifying conceptual framework explaining how the two processes are related and how they can be exploited in organizational decision making (Calabretta et al., 2017; Hodgkinson et al., 2009; Lieberman, 2007; Sinclair, 2011; Sinclair & Bas, 2017). I concur with these researchers about the need to conceptualize intuition and rational analysis as continually interacting and interdependent processes. This view broadly aligns with what some authors call expert intuition (Dane & Pratt, 2009; Kahneman & Klein, 2009). It is argued that experts in any field have “better” intuitive insights because they have more information, based on repeated experiences, stored in memory. They therefore have more to draw from when encountering new, but similar, decision-making situations, which gives them an advantage over non-experts in making efficacious decisions (Klein, 2003; Simon, 1992). Despite the insights from the research on expert intuition, I agree that a unifying conceptual framework is still needed to explain how the processes of intuiting and reasoning are related. To develop such a framework, it is necessary to examine further the key concepts of “intuiting” and “reasoning” and their relationship. A clear conceptual framework is necessary to facilitate effective decision making and for intuition research to impact the practice of intuition in organizations. Dougherty (2018) presents a similar argument about theories of innovation. In her view, innovation theories have focused on explaining “the what” and “the why” but have failed to explain the “the how” and have therefore been ignored by managers responsible for innovation. Much of the empirical research on intuition in organizational contexts has focused on the decision makers’ experience of intuition as a psychological or bodily phenom-","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121145718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The contribution of mental simulation to the development of intuition","authors":"Bianca Steffen, M. Goller, Christian Harteis","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126883569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEVELOPING INTUITION IN PRACTICAL SETTINGS","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126143648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESEARCHING INTUITION FROM NEW PERSPECTIVES","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126920284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTUITION AS PART OF AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DECISION MAKING","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129516133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129633060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CULTURAL AND COLLECTIVE VIEWS ON INTUITION","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115802964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DIFFERENT ROLES OF AFFECT IN INTUITING","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788979757.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979757.00015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428236,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116013916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}