直觉

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.

说是“心底的感觉”也好，“第六感”也好，别的什么东西也好，我们或多或少都有过直觉的体验。当然，心底的感觉经常会错（有多少次，坐飞机颠簸的时候你觉得它肯定会掉下去呢？），可也有很多时候似乎是正确的。心理学家们已经发现，人们会下意识地收集周遭世界的信息，由此便似乎能在不自知如何或为何的情况下感知或了解信息。但是，直觉的案例很难证明，也很难分析，而心理学家也可能只是答案的一部分而已。