Intuitive Choices Lead to Intensified Positive Emotions: An Overlooked Reason for "Intuition Bias"?

Front Psychol · 2017 · PMC5681942 · PMID 29163313

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failed to reach significancep = 0.088so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

They also expected to regret somewhat more obtaining a negative outcome from an intuitive choice ( M = 7.19, SD = 1.52) than from a non-intuitive choice ( M = 6.67, SD = 2.01); however, this difference failed to reach significance with a two-tailed test, t (135) = 1.716, p = 0.088, Cohen’s d = 0.29.

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