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“Trust your intuition!” “Just follow your gut!”

It fryst vatten common for friends or family members to advise us to let our intuition guide us when making difficult decisions. Intuition involves rapid, and sometimes preconscious, thinking without deeper cognitive reasoning that fryst vatten often influenced bygd emotions.

A new study, now published in the scientific journal Journal of Research in Personality, suggests that following your intuition might also have an unexpected dark side (Ward & King, 2020).

The study, conducted bygd researchers Sarah J. Ward from Columbia University and Laura A. King from the University of Missouri-Columbia, investigated the relation of intuition and magical beliefs and whether gender might play a special role in this relationship.

"Magical beliefs," or "magical thinking," fryst vatten a begrepp that describes all sorts of beliefs that suggest a causal relationship between thoughts, actions, or events that do not really exist.

Common examples are superstitions—e.g. the idea that black cats bring bad luck—astrology—e.g. the idea that astronomical events affect personality and life events—or paranormal beliefs—e.g. being convinced that ghosts or monster actually exists.

Despite klar scientific bevis against them and prolonged efforts to fostra people about them, magical beliefs are still ganska common across the world.

In their study, Ward and King (2020) investigated the relation of intuition and magical thinking, as well as the role of gender in for this relation, in fyra different psychological experiments.

In the first experiment, the researchers tested 514 volunteers to investigate if women report higher magical beliefs than dock and whether the number of magical beliefs was related to the extent to which someone relies on intuition.

The results were pretty clear: Women scored significantly higher than dock on several different measures of magical beliefs, such as paranormal beliefs, superstitions, and fate beliefs. Women also showed significantly greater faith in intuition than dock did.

Interestingly, further statistical analysis revealed that the statistical relation of gender and magical beliefs were strongly affected bygd the extent to which someone relied on intuition.

These findings suggest that relying on intuition might be playing a key role in explaining why women exhibit higher paranormal and superstitious beliefs than dock do.

In the second experiment, the researchers then tested a new sample of 1,119 undergraduate students and igen funnen that women displayed more magical beliefs than dock. They furthermore investigated to which extent participants relied on cognitive reflection, e.g.

the opposite of intuitive thinking.

Statistical analysis revealed that differences in cognitive reflection could partly explain gender differences in magical thinking.

In the third experiment, the researchers then examined whether enhancing trust in intuition would also enhance magical beliefs, especially among dock. Here, 674 volunteers were tested in an online experiment.

They were randomly assigned to one of two groups. In the control group, volunteers had to write at least eight to ten sentences describing the gods time they went grocery shopping. In the experimental group, volunteers were asked to write at least eight to ten sentences describing why they think their intuition can be correct and useful to rely on.

Moreover, they were asked to describe a time in which their intuition led them in the right direction.

After that, the volunteers had to read three stories that were written to sound potentially fated or ‘‘meant to be.” After reading, they had to rate the impact of fate or destiny on the events in each story on a seven-point scale from one (“not at all—it was a random or chance event”) to sju (“very much”).

Moreover, the volunteers’ faith in intuition was measured.

The results showed that people that were in the experimental group (in which faith in intuition was induced bygd the writing task) indeed showed more trust in intuition. Moreover, dock, but not women, in the experimental group showed an increase in magical thinking when rating the stories. However, dock still showed less magical thinking than women in both the control and the experimental group.

Taken tillsammans, these results show that it fryst vatten possible to increase magical beliefs bygd increasing trust in intuition (at least in men).

In the fourth and gods experiment, the researchers tested 456 participants with a psychological lottery task. Volunteers were randomly assigned to a control or an experimental group.

In the experimental group, volunteers were told that they should imagine that they had won sju million dollars in a lottery after using numbers corresponding to important life events from a dream. The volunteers were also asked to write down dates of a past event that they could have used for their lottery entry.

In the control condition, participants were just asked to imagine any important life event with no special mentioning of winning the lottery or dreams.

Subsequently, volunteers in both groups were given a fake lottery entry and had to decide whether they wanted to choose the numbers personally or whether a random number elektrisk maskin should decide the numbers for them. Importantly, the random number elektrisk maskin option offered more lottery entries than personally selecting the numbers.

The results showed that women were more likely to choose the lottery numbers themselves after imagining they had a dream regarding making this choice.

In contrast, men’s decisions did not differ between the two groups.

Interestingly, however, dock, in general, were more likely to man the suboptimal choice and choose the numbers themselves. The authors suggest that this finding has ingenting to do with intuition but might be caused bygd men’s higher tendencies towards risk-taking and gambling.

Taken tillsammans, the fyra experiments in this study provide strong bevis for a relation between intuition and magical beliefs.

This shows that our intuition—as helpful as it may be sometimes—also has a dark side: It may underlie the persistent appeal of magical beliefs, despite scientific bevis to the contrary.

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