Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

  • Those given more choices in online dating found the situation less enjoyable and said that it did not increase satisfaction (1) – page 32 2?
  • Under time pressure, novices performed wrose… experts hit the gtarget more often when they had less time… experts also did better when distracted (2) – page 33 2?
  • Taking time and analyzing led to worse pattern recognition… the gut reaction was better than the action chosen after reflection (3) – page 34 2
  • Ask your opponent what he is doing to make his forehand so brilliant… you have a good chance of making him think about it and weaken his swing (4) – page 36 2?
  • German children gave an equal split in the dictator game, as did fifteen smalls cale sociiteis in the forests of South America, the woodlands of Africa, the deserts of Mongolia, and other remote places (5) – page 69 4?
  • Laypeople picked the best stock 50 percent of the time…  financial experts predicted only 40 percent of the time (6) – page 80 5
  • When making predictions about what is not yet known, one good stat proved to be better than all stats combined (7) – page 83 5
  • The beer drinkers assigned their preferred brands higher ratings as long as the laebl was on the bottle… when the label was taken off, none of the groups rating a certain braind rated it as superior (8) – page 129 7
  • When choosing between doctors, the most dominant reason that made their decision was whether or not the doctor listened to what they were saying, even if it meant waitng forty minutes longer… the second most dominat reason was waiting time… the third reason was that parents wanted to see a phyisican that they knew (9) – page 145 8
  • People’s judgments tend to follow the Take the Best heuristic (10) – page 147 8
  • Doctors’ decisions whether to send patients to the intensive care unit were no better than chance… the factors doctors were looking for were not he most relvant ones…  the superior algorithm followed a fast and frugal tree (11) – page 170 9
  • Pennsylvania drivers spend an extra $450 million each year on full insurance coverage they would not have spent if the defeualt were the same as in New Jersey (12) – page 184 10?
  • A fast and frugal tree was used to determine whether or not to approve parole…  Even though additional information was requested, none of this information was used (13) – page 194 10

 

  1. “Shopping” for a Mate: Expected versus Experienced Preferences in Online Mate Choice
  2. Haste does not alwayas make waste expertise direction of attention and speed versus accuracy in eprforming snensorimotor skills
  3. Take the first option generation and resulting choices
  4. Directing attention to movement effects enhances learning a review
  5. A stage for the rational tail of the emoitnla dog roles of moral reasoning in group decision making, Economic man in cross cultural persepctive behavioral experiments in 15 small scale societies
  6. Worse than chance? performance and confidence among professionals and laypeople in the stock market
  7. Reasoning the fast and frugal way models of bounded rationality
  8. Influence of beer brand identification on taste perception
  9. Identifiying and analyzing do oinant preferneces in discrete chioce expiemrents an application in health care
  10. Assessing the empriical valididty of hte take the best heuristic as a model of human probalistic inference, Decision making with the adaptive toolbox infleunce ofe nvirnoemtnal structure intellgience and working memory load, Bayesian strategy assessment in multi attribute decision making, Empirical tests of a fast and frugal heurstic not everyone takes the best
  11. Influence of pseudodiagnostic information on the evaluation of ischemic heart disease
  12. Framing probability distortions and insurance decisions
  13. Psychological models of professional decision making