Are emotions prophetic? The short answer is No, but Jonah Lehrer at The Frontal Cortex offers a good summary of the long answer [pdf]:
Every feeling is like a summary of data, a quick encapsulation of all the information processing that we don’t have access to. (As Pham puts it, emotions are like a “privileged window” into the subterranean mind.) When it comes to making predictions about complex events, this extra information is often essential. It represents the difference between an informed guess and random chance.
Thin-slicing for dummies? I suppose the unasked question is how our prejudices, worldview and the socio-cultural context bias us in one direction or the other when we emotionally thin-slice… It just might be a good time for me to re-read Gladwell’s Blink too.
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I never made it through "Blink". It was a little too dry for me.
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It's a fascinating article. For a while now, I decided that I needed to invest in understanding my emotions, i.e Why do I feel and react to certain things in a certain way?
I'm going to pick up thin-slicing for dummies.
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erm… i thought emotions were part and parcel of logic, being that our "logic" is subject to numerous factors, including cultural, environment, maturity, hormones, what you had for breakfast that morning…? i suppose i see emotions being part and parcel of everything we are.
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I guess we are talking the finer emotions here – intuition. That unformed yet tangible feeling that a move is going to be good or terrible.
So did the writer factor in the 'spirit' here.
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