3. Intuition 直覺

Whether we call it gut feelings, a "sixth sense", or something else, we have all experienced intuition at one time or another. Of course, gut feelings are often wrong (how many times during aircraft turbulence have you been sure your plane was going down?), but they do seem to be right much of the time. Psychologists note that people subconsciously pick up information about the world around us, leading us to seemingly sense or know information without knowing exactly how or why we know it. But cases of intuition are difficult to prove or study, and psychology may only be part of the answer.

說是“心底的感覺”也好，“第六感”也好，別的什么東西也好，我們或多或少都有過直覺的體驗。當然，心底的感覺經常會錯（有多少次，坐飛機顛簸的時候你覺得它肯定會掉下去呢？），可也有很多時候似乎是正確的。心理學家們已經發現，人們會下意識地收集周遭世界的信息，由此便似乎能在不自知如何或為何的情況下感知或了解信息。但是，直覺的案例很難證明，也很難分析，而心理學家也可能只是答案的一部分而已。