gut instinct
GUT IN-stinkt
ɡʌt ˈɪnstɪŋktListen
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an immediate, intuitive sense of the right course of action that arises without conscious deliberation and is felt as a physical sensation in the abdomen rather than as a product of explicit reasoning; in psychology, gut instinct is associated with the fast, automatic processing described by Daniel Kahneman as System 1 thinking; while gut instincts can encode accumulated experience and pattern recognition that outperforms explicit analysis in familiar domains, they can also perpetuate biases and produce overconfident judgements when applied in unfamiliar or statistically complex situations
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