People who show good performance in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks can also make errors. Theories of human error fail to fully explain when and why good performers err. Some theories would predict that these errors ...
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 ...
Delineates 2 kinds of clever students: the “converger”, who excels in objective tests, and the “diverger”, who excels in essay tests. A description of the intellectual abilities, attitudes, and personalities of a sample ...
Amabile, TM; Hadley, CM; Kramer, SJ(Harvard Business Review, 2002)
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of ...
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 ...
Sio, Ut Na; Ormerod, Thomas C.(American Psychological Association, 2009)
A meta-analytic review of empirical studies that have investigated incubation effects on problem solving
is reported. Although some researchers have reported increased solution rates after an incubation period
(i.e., a ...
Strategy at the Leading Edge features short reports on conferences, new research and experiments by academics, organizations and consuitaricles for all those involved in strategy and strategic management. Contributions ...
Frensch, Peter A; Sternberg, Robert J(Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence, 1989)
It has often been said . . . that expertise in a given domain actually hinders people's success in that domain / the goal of this chapter is to specify some of the conditions under which and reasons why experts are sometimes ...
Using examples ranging from Boeing to Buddhism, this Book demonstrates how an understanding of intuition can support creativity, innovation and interpersonal functioning. Drawing on cutting-edge work in social and cognitive ...
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and ...
Although its origins have been traced back much further, research in the area of learning style has been active for—at a conservative estimate—around four decades. During that period the intensity of activity has varied, ...
Purpose – Studies investigating intuition from a cultural and cross-cultural perspective have a long tradition in various disciplines but, due to the increased internationalization of business, an understanding of the ...
Background
A number of benefits from meditation have been claimed by those who practice various traditions, but few have been well tested in scientifically controlled studies. Among these claims are improved performance ...
Stanovich, K E; West, R F(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2008)
In 7 different studies, the authors observed that a large number of thinking biases are uncorrelated with cognitive ability. These thinking biases include some of the most classic and well-studied biases in the heuristics ...
Furnham, Adrian; Jackson, Chris J; Miller, Tony(Personality and Individual Differences, 1999)
Just over two hundred telephone sales staff completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Extraversion was highly correlated both positively and negatively ...