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  2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Wikipedia

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    The challenge is to sift through and focus on only the most critical information. The other information may be irrelevant and confusing. Collecting more information, in most cases, may reinforce our judgment but does not help make it more accurate. Gladwell explains that better judgments can be executed from simplicity and frugality of ...

  3. Human givens - Wikipedia

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    Instincts and emotions: A set of basic responses and 'propulsion' for behaviours; A rational mind : A conscious, rational mind that can check out emotions, question, analyse and plan; A metaphorical mind : The ability to 'know', to understand the world unconsciously through metaphorical pattern matching ('this thing is like that thing');

  4. Intuition - Wikipedia

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    Instinct is often misinterpreted as intuition. Its reliability is dependent on past knowledge and occurrences in a specific area. [dubious – discuss] For example, someone who has had more experience with children will tend to have better instincts about what they should do in certain situations with them. This is not to say that one with a ...

  5. Six Thinking Hats - Wikipedia

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    Some may feel that using the hats is unnatural, uncomfortable or even counterproductive and against their better judgement. [citation needed] A compelling example presented is sensitivity to "mismatch" stimuli. This is presented as a valuable survival instinct because, in the natural world, the thing that is out of the ordinary may well be ...

  6. Intuition and decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Intuition is the mechanism by which this implicit knowledge is brought to the forefront of the decision-making process. Some definitions of intuition in the context of decision-making point to the importance of recognizing cues and patterns in one's environment and then using them to improve one's problem solving abilities. [4]

  7. Drive theory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, a drive theory, theory of drives or drive doctrine [1] is a theory that attempts to analyze, classify or define the psychological drives. A drive is an instinctual need that has the power of driving the behavior of an individual; [2] an "excitatory state produced by a homeostatic disturbance".

  8. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    The ranges of instincts are in great numbers. Freud expressed them in two categories. One is Eros the self-preserving life instinct containing all erotic pleasures. While Eros is used for basic survival, the living instinct alone cannot explain all behavior according to Freud. [8] In contrast, Thanatos is the death instinct.

  9. The Ego and the Id - Wikipedia

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    The Ego and the Id develops a line of reasoning as a groundwork for explaining various (or perhaps all) psychological conditions, pathological and non-pathological alike. . These conditions result from powerful internal tensions—for example: 1) between the ego and the id, 2) between the ego and the super ego, and 3) between the love-instinct and the death-insti