Judgements Made Based on Intuition

Our emotions act as our conscience when we make a decision. Our conscience is an inner feeling or a voice that acts as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of our behaviors. We make a choice based on the way that we feel in the situation at the moment.. Emotions and decision making go hand in hand. Whatever emotion we feel, we do the action that corresponds whether it be an immoral or

‘Instinctive judgment’ is the motivation of an action in response to external stimuli based on either behaviour, innateness, or impulsion without involving reason (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014). Although instinct is often associated with intuition, they are separate concepts because instinct is inherent while intuition is acquired; instinct is the inherent inclination to react to a situation due to an inherited configuration of thought while intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without thought. Therefore, to make an instinctive judgment is to make a decision based on your instinct. There are as many meanings to ‘check’ as there are for ‘instinctive judgment’, but in this essay ‘check’ means to verify as to correctness by stopping

As evidence for the basis of judgments and decisions, evaluated in my own reports and records, I need to show that I accurately and clearly record the judgements and decisions and evidence on which the judgements have been based and where judgement is based on informed opinion. I do record other evidence and reports which support my judgements and decisions and conflict with my judgements and decisions. It is as well very important to clarify events and decisions.

Most decisions are made with analysis, but some are judgment calls not susceptible to analysis due to time or information constraints. Please write about a judgment call you’ve made recently that couldn’t be analyzed. It can be a big or small one, but should focus on a business issue. What was the situation, the alternatives you considered and evaluated, and your decision making process? Be sure to explain why you chose the alternative you did relative to others considered.

Prior to the miniscule reign of Macbeth, countless people were murdered. This included everyone that threatened Macbeth emotionally and also everyone in relation to that character. For instance, when Macbeth had Duncan killed Malcolm and Donalbain (Duncan’s sons) fled. Likewise when he had the murderers kill Banquo, Banquo’s son Fleance managed to escape. The last person to worry about was Macduff. Although he could not kill Macduff, due to his conciliation in England, he did go after everyone that resided in his home. This concluded Macbeth’s “thought out” plan to become King. However, the blood from these innocent families brought only guilt to Macbeth’s conscience; so why did he do it? Many say that he was driven by Lady

In one experiment, involving various bad smells, it was noted that the participants that had been exposed to a mild-stink or strong-stink smell were more severe in their moral judgements than participants exposed to no bad smell. In all four experiments, the same results were obtained, participants that felt disgust were likely to be more severe in their judgments. This paper concludes that participants who believe in their intuitions were often tricked by outside forces, such as a bad smell. Noting this phenomenon, the paper suggests that self-awareness of these outside factors can help mitigate their effect. However, they also suggest it is not wise to completely remove somatic markers. In one study, the patients were not able to incorporate feelings and sensations into their decision making; as a result, the patients were unable to come to conclusions on any simple subject matter. The paper concludes that it is ok to rely on these intuitions even if they can be easily influenced, but it also says we must be aware of factors that can distort our intuitions. By following this methodology, one can mitigate making biased decisions due to his or her

In a 2014 TedTalk titled “Why Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You”, former prison inmate Shaka Senghor depicts his journey and transformation before, during and after being sentenced to prison for murder. In the inspirational lecture, Senghor tells his listeners that at the age of 17, he was shot three times on the corner of the street in Detroit, Michigan. After a hospital visit and years of lack of support and counseling from the traumatic incident, Senghor found himself bitter and angry. Reacting hyper violently to this lack of support caused by his trauma, Senghor ended up selling illegal drugs on street corners, engaging in criminal activity, and eventually, shooting and killing a man at the age of 19. When Shaka was sentenced to prison, his violent and criminal behavior only worsened. After getting caught selling smuggled drugs in the prison, he was sent to solitary confinement. While in solitary confinement he received a letter from his son that would start his transformation from criminal to civilian, and change the course of his life entirely. Serving the rest of his sentence, Senghor began to turn his life around. He shared his story with other inmates who consoled him and taught him to be honest with himself and those around him. He read literature which allowed him to contemplate and analyze the decisions that led him to where he was. He wrote a journal of his struggles, allowing him to admit his mistakes and move on from them. He even found someone he loved, who

In his lecture, “The Will to Believe,” William James addresses how one adopts a belief. There is a hypothesis and an option, where you choose between two live hypotheses. An option has the characteristics to be live or dead, forced or avoidable, and momentous or trivial. In his thesis, James argues how “our passional nature” must make our decisions about our beliefs when they cannot be certainly determined on “intellectual grounds,” however, this is not the case, we can always make the decision based on intellectual grounds. One can use Bayesian probability to gain some grasp of the situation and eventually to make a decision.

The concept may sound reliable, however, there isn’t any set of ground rules to carry it out. That is to say as much of this sounds ideal in the article, however, doesn’t translate well to the real world. Frankly, emotions are hard to handle or even interpret because of many factors, especially since it one’s personal response on how they feel at a given time. The article proposes great points of views which provide many examples, especially of prominent people like Plato, Elias, and Durkheim. With these authors credited in, it provides the article with reliability. Furthermore, the article is well researched based on the findings and is logically

“We need faith to do what seems right without necessarily being sure of the effects

An intuitive moral judgment is immediate judgment that requires no thinking or reflection. In other words, an intuitive moral judgment is simply a judgment we make with a minimum of thinking about it. An intuitive moral judgment is an automatic response to our understanding of a situation or an action. Many moral psychologists believe that moral intuitions are mainly based on our feelings rather than reasoning.

I felt that the author of the article pointed out many things that were broken. However, I feel that the skewed perspectives and judgements of those who live in poverty are the most damaged. While this obviously has a dramatic impact on the realities of those living in such circumstances, it also further damages the broken system which also perpetuates flawed and value laden judgements. With the lack of understanding poverty and the pieces that coincide with poverty, and attempting to address such issues through experiments is not only shameful, but contributes to the wrecked system we impose on others, furthering the harm already created. Matthews (2016), gives a great example of this pointing out that, “The waiver programs were often run

Since humans evolved, we’ve relied on our senses to guide us and help us survive, for without them, we’d have gone extinct a long time ago. Our sight lets us view the world around, allowing us not only to spot danger, but also to explore, and discover new places and objects, whilst our hearing allows us, for example, to survey our surrounding more efficiently. We’ve always needed our senses to survive, so much so that the idea of them being untrustworthy is a worrying thought, but is it possible for this to happen, and can our senses be deceived?

Uttich and Lombrozo also studied the side-effect effect, but explained it differently than Knobe did. They said that the side-effect effect, the differences in ascribed mental states and traits pertaining to intentionality of an action, is due to the side effect’s norm status as opposed to moral status. They named this view the Rational Scientist view. While Knobe suggested the moral status of a side-effect influenced judgments on intentionality, Uttich and Lombrozo suggested that norm status is sufficient alone in producing the side-effect effect. Specifically, they said that norm-violating behavior that outweighs the reason to observe the norm is more informative in explaining intentionality of side effects compared to norm-conforming behavior. By default, people usually follow the norms, unless some sufficiently strong reason compels them to violate them. The Rational Scientist view is consistent with the Theory of Mind, in that internal states support explanation and prediction of behavior, but adds the vital role of norms in those predictions and explanations; moral norms affect Theory of Mind ascriptions by influencing mental state ascriptions.

The production of knowledge is a process that occurs through a sequence of related actions, these series of actions allows for the Ways of Knowing to interact in a way that works to develop the knowledge that is being produced. From the prescribed title we can claim that while the Ways of Knowing may appear to be acting in isolation when forming knowledge, they are actually working in a variety of different ways in the construction and formation. In some cases, the Ways of Knowing are interacting so closely together that it is often hard to differentiate between them, for example emotion and reason, or imagination and memory. Given the right circumstances faith can be isolated to a point where it can be acting by itself to produce knowledge. However, this knowledge is often deemed as unreliable, due to faith being seen as one of the more “subjective” ways of knowing. This inability to differentiate the ways of knowing from each other during the production of knowledge, raises the questions “Can any knowledge in any Area of Knowledge be produced by a single Way of Knowing?” and “Is it possible to distinguish between Ways of Knowing if they are working together?”. While reason is used in almost all production of knowledge, it is the other Ways of Knowing used that can determine whether the knowledge is reliable or not, as some Ways of Knowing are more subjective than others. This essay will attempt to