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PubMed1999

[Intuition and research].

The manuscript defines the role of intuition in the surgical research (representability, accessability, "anchoreffect"). Sudden changes of direction in research can be caused by intuition (e.g. Polymerase chain reaction or Angiogenesis). Intuition leads to success when the basic idea is followed with externe diligence, consequence and perseverance. Evidence based medicine resulted from intuitive clinimetry. In the end research and intuition are tied together: continued work and commitment on one side and intuition as source of energy for perseverance and stamina.

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Learning intuition--less college and more kindergarten: the leader's challenge.

Learning to think instinctually and to depend on our intuition means, for many of us, going back to kindergarten and focusing more on our instinctual side to balance the linear approach that we've learned in many college and business school courses. It also means building time into our lives for reflection and allowing our brains the time to reorganize the events of our lives into patterns that we will recognize in the future. The process of the incubating experience and data in our minds over time will build the intuition and instincts that will help us all to learn how to be great leaders (Gardner, 1995). We can learn much from the training of clinicians in pattern recognition and intuitive analysis of clinical situations. Many of us who were clinicians first understand the intuitive side of clinical practice and of administrative practice because we were educated in both worlds. We have the advantage of knowing the concepts of intuitive thinking and must remember to apply those concepts daily to our practices in leadership. Toffler said "You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment" (Boone, 1999, p. 80). As we acquire more experience and wisdom, we learn to trust our own intelligence and judgment. What we came to know in kindergarten is as valuable as the analytical knowledge we have since acquired. In leadership, we will do well to remember our clinical roots and to continually hone our skills in intuition and thinking with our gut.

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Learning intuition--less college and more kindergarten: the leader's challenge.

Learning to think instinctually and to depend on our intuition means, for many of us, going back to kindergarten and focusing more on our instinctual side to balance the linear approach that we've learned in many college and business school courses. It also means building time into our lives for reflection and allowing our brains the time to reorganize the events of our lives into patterns that we will recognize in the future. The process of the incubating experience and data in our minds over time will build the intuition and instincts that will help us all to learn how to be great leaders (Gardner, 1995). We can learn much from the training of clinicians in pattern recognition and intuitive analysis of clinical situations. Many of us who were clinicians first understand the intuitive side of clinical practice and of administrative practice because we were educated in both worlds. We have the advantage of knowing the concepts of intuitive thinking and must remember to apply those concepts daily to our practices in leadership. Toffler said "You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment" (Boone, 1999, p. 80). As we acquire more experience and wisdom, we learn to trust our own intelligence and judgment. What we came to know in kindergarten is as valuable as the analytical knowledge we have since acquired. In leadership, we will do well to remember our clinical roots and to continually hone our skills in intuition and thinking with our gut.

Humans↗
PubMed1997

Intuition: a critical review of the research and rhetoric.

This paper will explore the concept of intuition in nursing from an acute care and community nursing perspective. It will consider definitions of intuition and examine the research which can inform our understanding of this important component of decision making. In the current health service climate, which demands measurable research-based evidence, the involvement of intuition as an element of judgement is often denigrated. The result is that many nurses are being forced to be covert in their use of this crucial aspect of judgement and focus solely on the conscious elements of decision-making. However, research evidence would suggest that intuition occurs in response to knowledge, is a trigger for action and/or reflection and thus has a direct bearing on analytical processes in patient/client care. The authors therefore argue that the essential nature of intuition cannot be ignored in the practice, management, education and research of nursing.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed2000

A gut feeling? Intuition and critical care nursing.

As nurses, we are knowledgeable about nursing and able, immediately and intuitively, to identify the needs and demands of a given situation. Experienced nurses practise intuitively by virtue of having developed, through critical thought, a deeply grounded knowledge base that can be applied in daily practice. Each gains knowledge about nursing practice in such a way that every clinical experience becomes a lesson which informs the next experience. There is continued debate over the domain of nursing knowledge, where it originates and to whom it belongs. Much of nursing knowledge has emerged from the practice of other professions. There now appears to be an increasing focus within today's modern healthcare environment on the importance of measurable outcomes and the need to predict the consequences of all interventions. The strength of our intuition often urges us to do something more for the patient. When we as nurses report our intuitions, subjective feelings are often at odds with the objective signs and symptoms. Nurses have made great strides in recognizing, analysing and teaching concepts related to logical, rational decision-making. It is imperative, however, also to recognize and teach the concepts related to the intuitive and precognitive components of making decisions in clinical practice.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2003

Intuitive psychology and physics among children with autism and typically developing children.

Many studies have documented poor understanding of intuitive psychology among children with autism; however, few have investigated claims of superior understanding of intuitive physics said to be evident in this group. This study aimed to investigate the reported differential preference of intuitive psychology and intuitive physics among children with autism by employing three tasks each with a psychological and a physical condition. In order to gain a detailed developmental picture the study compared children with autism, an age matched comparison group, and typically developing preschoolers, 7-year-olds and 10-year-olds. Results demonstrated that children with autism preferred to employ physical causality when reasoning about novel physical and psychological events. Furthermore, their performance on a multiple-choice task confirmed their impairment in intuitive psychology whilst highlighting a superior ability to reason about physical phenomena in relation to all other comparison groups. The theoretical implications of this potential cognitive strength are discussed.

Autistic Disorder↗
PubMed2004

Common sense, intuition, and theory in personality and social psychology.

Theoretical work in personality and social psychology benefits from a well-developed understanding of the prior empirical and theoretical work on a problem and from informed intuitions. Intuitions develop about a subject matter through years of study, investigation, and problem solving, just as chess masters develop a sophisticated set of cognitive structures that change the very appearance of the chess board. In part because the subject matter is so personal, students new to personality and social psychology arrive with many intuitions, prior beliefs, and naive theories about social processes and behavior based on unsystematic experiences and observations. These intuitions can hinder or foster theoretical progress. The role of mentors, critiques, and empirical tests in minimizing the deleterious effects of these entry biases is discussed. Refined scientific intuitions are also subject to error, however, so means of minimizing these errors are also discussed.

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Intuition in nursing relationships: the result of 'skills' or 'qualities'?

Maintaining the scientific orientation of health and nursing care systems has resulted in a lack of focus on nurses' intuitive knowledge base. Consequently, confusion exists as to whether intuition in nursing is the result of acquired skills, or is dependent upon the inherent qualities of the individual. In deconstructing the apparently intuitive process of building rapport, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) can offer insight, suggesting that rapport building depends on learnt skills that have moved into unconscious competence. The examination of nurses' intuitive knowledge, in order to identify underlying skills, needs to be just as rigorous as the acquisition of scientific knowledge. Examining intuitive knowledge can be achieved within a framework of reflective practice to counter the inherent dangers of an increasingly scientific approach operating within a caring profession.

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[Intuitive ability in nursing care].

This study aimed to understand the intuitive ability of nursing professionals in caring. The study method was qualitative, adopting a descriptive exploratory approach. Sampling involved 87 female nursing professionals, being 31 nurses, 29 nursing technicians and 18 nursing auxiliaries. The result showed different levels of intuitive abilities, related to novice, standard, and veteran. The relation between the three levels of intuitive abilities and the corresponding figures in years, observed in a North American study, was not identified. The factors described as affecting the intuitive experience were both environmental and intra-interpersonal (personological). The experiences of the professionals portrayed the importance of intuition in nursing care, mainly in doubtful and conflicting situations and, in this sense, its vital function was decision-making towards better quality of nursing care.

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PubMed1999

[Can intuition in surgery by learned?].

Intuition, even at the end of the 20th century, has decisive significance in the field of medicine. Intuition within the medical field is understood to be a type of thinking based on experience, but without conscious recourse to its situations and thought processes; rather, it represents an act without reflection and one determining our medical actions to some extent. It is a cognitive process, an intuitive gain in recognition on the basis of experiential values called up from memory. Intuition is a combination of knowledge, ability, endurance, intellectual abilities, and discoursive methods of recognition, in short, the abilities of an expert. To become an expert, one must go through the stations of surgical training. In these the knowledge is imparted, which leads via decision-making to diagnosis and therapy. Intuition in the sense of the definition as experiential thinking cannot be learnt, but it can be schooled. The prerequisites for this are analytic thinking, expert knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1996

Antenatal fetal heart rate and "maternal intuition" as predictors of fetal sex.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if the antenatal fetal heart rate is a reliable predictor of fetal sex, if there is any correlation between "maternal intuition" and fetal gender, and if maternal intuition favors one sex over the other. STUDY DESIGN: Two hundred twelve consecutive maternity patients with singleton gestations underwent a total of 2,261 antepartum visits. Fetal heart rate assessment was carried out between 14 and 41 weeks of gestation. At 32 weeks, participants were asked if they had a strong intuitive feeling regarding the fetal gender. Following birth, data on the infant were recorded, and the information was analyzed. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in the baseline fetal heart rate between male and female fetuses at any recorded gestational age. One hundred ten patients (51.9%) in the sample indicated a strong belief about the sex of their fetuses, with the majority (63.6%) predicting a male. The accuracy of maternal intuition, however, was not significantly different from that of random guessing. CONCLUSION: In the current era of declining family size, an increased focus on absolute reproductive choice and proliferating reproductive technological services, prenatal sex determination and sex selection will continue to provoke increasing attention. Fetal heart rate determination and maternal intuition, however, are not valid predictors of fetal gender.

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PubMed2002

Rethinking the probative value of evidence: base rates, intuitive profiling, and the "postdiction" of behavior.

It is argued that American courts may be routinely admitting evidence with little to no probative value and great potential for prejudicial impact. This may be particularly likely with regard to what is essentially "intuitive profiling" or "stereotype" related evidence, defined herein as evidence suggesting that the defendant (or other party), or his (her) behavior, fits intuitive "profiles" (or stereotypes) of the type of person likely to commit the crime or behavior in question. In other words, "intuitive profiling" evidence is admitted to "postdict" behavior Formal empirically based "profiling" evidence (testimony regarding the fit of a defendants characteristics or behaviors to formal or scientific profiles of the typical perpetrator of the crime in question) for use to prove guilt is inadmissible in American courts. However, we suggest that everyday use of informal intuitive profiles underlies both judicial determinations of probative value (diagnosticity), and thus admissibility, of evidence, and jurors' use of the evidence in determining guilt. Demonstrations of the use of base rate information to evaluate the probative value of such intuitive profiling evidence both as evidence of guilt and as evidence of innocence are provided. Demonstrations of both how to evaluate the actual probative value of evidence (when all necessary values are known), and the theoretical limit of its probative value (in circumstances where some values are not known) are provided. It is argued that such evaluations may provide the basis for (1) support of motions to either admit or to exclude evidence, (2) testimony to the jury to help them weigh or interpret evidence, (3) exculpatory profiling (profiling evidence of innocence), (4) pretrial research to establish probative versus prejudicial value of evidence, and (5) sufficiency analyses to determine maximum likelihood of guilt, given multiple items of evidence. Among these, the first two are considered most important, as it can be demonstrated that many "profiling" characteristics currently admitted in trial (such as evidence of battery to support a murder charge) are not probative of guilt.

Decision Support Techniques↗
PubMed1985

Intuition, cognitive style, and hemispheric processing.

200 undergraduate volunteers were administered Westcott's Test of Intuitive Ability, Witkin's Group Embedded Figures Test, Paivio's Revised Individual Differences Questionnaire, and visual and aural dominance measures using a three-field tachistoscope and dichotic listening device, respectively. Field dependence was consistently related to poorer intuitive performance. No sex-related differences were found on intuition, embedded figures, Paivio's questionnaire, or dominance scores although the amount of intuition explained by cognitive style and dominance differed by hand and gender. Visual-verbal style was not associated with dominance while the relation of field dependence-independence and dominance was inconsistent. Neither dominance nor visual-verbal style was consistently related to intuition although complicated associations were indicated by hand and sex, suggesting differences in cognitive organization.

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PubMed2004

Intuitive eating and the nutrition transition in Asia.

Current models of the nutrition transition focus on demographic changes and economic development. A further influence may be the adoption of western-based perceptions of beauty that lead to potentially harmful eating behaviours which contribute to overweight, obesity, and eating disorders. This paper proposes a comprehensive model of the nutrition transition that includes western influences on perceived attractiveness and subsequent eating styles. An exploratory test of this model for Asian countries explores differences in intuitive eating as a function of economic development and the adoption of western standards of beauty. The intuitive eating scale (IES), a measure of food consumption that is primarily characterized by the satisfaction of physical hunger, was used to evaluate agreement with intuitive eating principles in the US and four Asian countries (Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and China). Although intuitive eating scores in the US and Thailand failed to follow predicted patterns on two of the four IES subscales, scores for the other two IES subscales and the total IES score followed predicted patterns for Asian countries. Intuitive eating appears to be a valid, measurable concept that is correlated with economic development and levels of western influence in Asian countries. The tentative findings of this exploratory study support further evaluation of cultural influences as an important component of the nutrition transition.

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PubMed1994

Intuition and consciousness.

Intuition represents an unconscious cognitive activity, the results of which become conscious at some point. Some recent nonpsychoanalytic explorations of cognition and consciousness are examined to illuminate our understanding of these processes and their relation to the psychoanalytic process. Our thesis is that intuition may be most usefully viewed as a form of unconscious pattern-matching cognition, which becomes conscious under certain conditions and which is only loosely related to primary process. A clinical example is given of the analyst's intuition to illustrate the initial ostensibly theory-free nature of the raw intuition and the subsequent theory-bound explorations of the intuitive conclusion. Implications for teaching and learning psychoanalysis are noted.

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PubMed2024

Leveraging clinical intuition to improve accuracy of phenotype-driven prioritization.

PURPOSE: Clinical intuition is commonly incorporated into the differential diagnosis as an assessment of the likelihood of candidate diagnoses based either on the patient population being seen in a specific clinic or on the signs and symptoms of the initial presentation. Algorithms to support diagnostic sequencing in individuals with a suspected rare genetic disease do not yet incorporate intuition and instead assume that each Mendelian disease has an equal pretest probability. METHODS: The LIkelihood Ratio Interpretation of Clinical AbnormaLities (LIRICAL) algorithm calculates the likelihood ratio of clinical manifestations represented by Human Phenotype Ontology terms to rank candidate diagnoses. The initial version of LIRICAL assumed an equal pretest probability for each disease in its calculation of the posttest probability (where the test is diagnostic exome or genome sequencing). We introduce Clinical Intuition for Likelihood Ratios (ClintLR), an extension of the LIRICAL algorithm that boosts the pretest probability of groups of related diseases deemed to be more likely. RESULTS: The average rank of the correct diagnosis in simulations using ClintLR showed a statistically significant improvement over a range of adjustment factors. CONCLUSION: ClintLR successfully encodes clinical intuition to improve ranking of rare diseases in diagnostic sequencing. ClintLR is freely available at https://github.com/TheJacksonLaboratory/ClintLR.

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PubMed2004

How do homeopaths make decisions? An exploratory study of inter-rater reliability and intuition in the decision making process.

The validity of clinical decision making in homeopathy is largely unexplored and little is understood about the process or its reliability. This exploratory study investigated, in the context of a questionnaire based re-proving of Belladonna 30c, the extent to which decisions are based on clinical facts or intuition and how reliable decisions are. Three experienced, independent homeopathic clinicians/proving researchers rated the symptom diaries of the 206 subjects taking part. They reported their proving decision (ie positive proving response, no proving response or undecided) based on the total symptom profiles and rated (on a scale of 0-10) their use of clinical facts or intuition. Keynote symptoms and overall confidence scores were also reported. The level of agreement between raters was generally poor (weighted kappa 0.349-0.064). All raters used both facts and intuition. The rater's reliance on the facts was significantly associated with classifying those subjects who had no proving response [rater 1, P<0.001; rater 2, P<0.001]. Raters used significantly higher intuition scores when classifying a prover [rater 2, P= 0.001; rater 3, P= 0.012]. Issues regarding the education and practice of homeopathy are discussed.

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Fostering intuition: a role of the trauma nurse mentor.

Intuitive knowledge is a relative component of the critical thinking process. Intuition is discussed along with examples of how nurses have demonstrated intuitive thinking in the trauma setting. Recommendations are offered for how the mentor trauma nurse can foster an awareness and the development of intuition in the novice practitioner.

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