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When It Comes To Accepting Evolution, Gut Feelings Trump Facts

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2012Scienceacceptance of evolution, gut feeling, intuitive notion, knowledge level, theory of evolution

COLUMBUS, Ohio – For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive “gut feeling” may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study. (more…)

People Don’t Just Think with Their Guts; Logic Plays a Role Too

By Guest PostJanuary 2, 2012Healthgut feeling, intuitive sense, logic, reasoning, understanding logic

For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has a new suggestion: Maybe thinking about logic is also intuitive. He writes about this idea in the January issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. (more…)