How rational is it to trust your gut instincts?

You would be putting your reputation at stake, especially in the Western world obsessed with analytic thinking, if any of your far-reaching decisions planks on intuition. Any deviation from rational sphere to hunches and emotions is viewed as primitive and religious thinking but that may be a misplaced notion.

According to “predictive processing framework” our emotions and intuitions are a result of processing that goes inside the brain when it compares incoming sensory information to the stacks of stored knowledge and past memories, notes Newsweek.

While rejecting intuition as “dumb responses” won’t be correct, this ineffable trait can’t be trusted blindly as it “falls prey to cognitive biases,” reports The Conversation.