ABSTRACT
Approaching the concept of intuition is a risky endeavor. Traps lurk everywhere and one is prone to be sniped at for disseminating misconceptions about intuitive thinking. Psychologists widely agree that intuition is a phenomenon of paramount importance characterized by distinct properties. Unfortunately, they also disagree about what those properties are. For example, the Take-The-Best heuristic (Gigerenzer & Goldstein, 1999; see also Hoffrage, Hafenbrädl, & Marewski, this volume) is a lexicographic rule of decision making that simply compares arguments or outcomes on the most important dimension while ignoring all the others. The option with the best value on this single dimension is chosen. Some researchers view this heuristic as an example of intuitive thinking (Gigerenzer, 2007). Others conceive such rules as shortcuts to deliberation (T. Betsch, 2008; Frederick, 2002) and show that children have difficulty learning these simple rules (Mata, von Helversen, & Rieskamp, 2011).
