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  • Development and Validation of the Cognitive Style Indicator 
    Cools, Eva; Van den Broeck, Herman (2007)
    The authors describe the development and validation of the Cognitive Style Indicator (CoSI) using 3 diverse samples (N = 5,924; N = 1,580; and N = 635). Reliability, item, and factor analyses demonstrated the internal ...
  • Big Five personality predictors of post-secondary academic performance 
    O’Connor, Melissa C.; Paunonen, Sampo V. (2007)
    We reviewed the recent empirical literature on the relations between the Big Five personality dimensions and post-secondary academic achievement, and found some consistent results. A meta-analysis showed Conscientiousness, ...
  • Cognitive Resilience: Reflection-in-action and on-action 
    Back, J.; Furniss, D.; Blandford, A. (2007)
    Identifying cognitive strategies that people use to support resilient performance has rarely been the focus of experimental work. Our experiments have found that the pervasiveness of failures during human computer interaction ...
  • Personality and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Typical and Maximum Managerial Performance 
    Marcus, Bernd; Goffin, Richard D.; Johnston, Norman G.; Rothstein, Mitchell G. (2007)
    Despite long-established distinctions between typical and maximum performance variables on both the predictor and criterion side, little previous research has directly addressed the extent to which these distinctions ...
  • Naturalistic Decision Making and Macrocognition 
    Schraagen, Jan Maarten (2008)
    This Book presents the latest work in the area of naturalistic decision making (NDM) and its extension into the area of macrocognition. It contains 18 chapters relating research centred on the study of expertise in ...
  • Naturalistic Decision Making 
    Klein, Gary (2008)
    Objective: This article describes the origins and contributions of the naturalistic decision making (NDM) research approach. Background: NDM research emerged in the 1980s to study how people make decisions in real-world ...
  • On improving dynamic decision-making: implications from multiple-process cognitive theory 
    Bakken, Bent Erik (2008)
    Decision environments that afford unambiguous and transparent feedback allow humans to build up corresponding mental models that give them good decision guidance. But in many complex decision situations, such feedback is ...
  • Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioural sciences 
    Hodgkinson, Gerard P.; Langan-Fox, Janice; Sadler-Smith, Eugene (2008)
    The concept of intuition has, until recently, received scant scholarly attention within and beyond the psychological sciences, despite its potential to unify a number of lines of inquiry. Presently, the literature on ...
  • Intuition versus analysis: Strategy and experience in complex everyday problem solving 
    Pretz, Jean E. (2008)
    Research on dual processes in cognition has shown that explicit, analytical thought is more powerful and less vulnerable to heuristics and biases than is implicit, intuitive thought. However, several studies have shown ...
  • Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory 
    Susanne M. Jaeggi; Martin Buschkuehl; John Jonides; Walter J. Perrig (2008)
    Brain-training efforts designed to improve working memory can also boost scores in general problem-solving ability and improve fluid intelligence, according to new research. Many psychologists believe general intelligence ...
  • Social Ties and Cognitive Recovery after Stroke: Does Social Integration Promote Cognitive Resilience? 
    Glymour, M. Maria; Weuve, Jennifer; Fay, Martha E.; Glass, Thomas; Berkman, Lisa F. (2008)
    : Little is known about the possible effects of social resources on stroke survivors’ level and change in cognitive outcomes. Understanding this association may help us identify strategies to improve stroke recovery and ...
  • Social intelligence and the biology of leadership. 
    D, Goleman; R, Boyatzis (2008)
    A decade ago in these pages, Goleman published his highly influential article on emotional intelligence and leadership. Now he, a cochair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, and ...
  • Towards an Experiential Model of Problem Initiated Decision Making 
    Caruth, Donald L.; Caruth, Gail D.; Humphreys, John H. (2009)
    Solving problems through effective and efficient management decision making is crucial to managerial and organizational success. Regrettably, many decision making and problem solving models in the literature are limited ...
  • Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree 
    Kahneman, Daniel; Klein, Gary (2009)
    This article reports on an effort to explore the differences between two approaches to intuition and expertise that are often viewed as conflicting: heuristics and biases (HB) and naturalistic decision making (NDM). Starting ...
  • The Perils of Pondering: Intuition and Thin Slice Judgements 
    Ambady, Nalini (2010)
    Intuitive processing is critical for effective social and interpersonal interactions. Previous work has found that people are able to form accurate impressions that predict certain ecologically valid outcomes from brief ...
  • Lateral Thinking 
    de Bono, Edward (2010)
    In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then? Lateral thinking is all ...
  • Critical thoughts about critical thinking 
    Klein, Gary (2011)
    For occupations such as intelligence analysis a great deal of effort has gone into developing critical thinking training and methods. These programmes have a great deal of value, but they may also have drawbacks. This ...
  • Nursing experience and preference for intuition in decision making 
    Pretz, Jean E; Folse, Victoria N (2011)
    Aims and objectives.  This article examines the relationship between domain-specific and domain-general intuition among practicing nurses and student nurses to determine the role of intuition in nurses’ decision making. ...
  • The pitfalls of premature closure: clinical decision-making in a case of aortic dissection 
    Kumar, B.; Kanna, B.; Kumar, S. (2011)
    Premature closure is a type of cognitive error in which the physician fails to consider reasonable alternatives after an initial diagnosis is made. It is a common cause of delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis borne out of a ...
  • The Role of Intuition in Strategic Decision Making: How Managers' Rationalize Intuition 
    Hanlon, Philomena (2011)
    This paper looks at the role of intuition in strategic decision making. While there is a considerable body of work on intuition generally empirical research on it and its use by managers is limited. Little research on ...

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