About this Research Topic
Intuition, along with the unconscious intelligence on which it depends, is increasingly a topic of academic interest. Yet the possibility it has a special place in the way women perceive and comprehend the world, along with the possibility that women might favor a certain type of intuition, have been overshadowed by the important struggle for female equality. Recent findings suggest that women in leadership positions may make a unique contribution due in part to the way they process information. The time might be ripe to begin a serious academic investigation of women’s intuition. We appreciate that gender as well as gender-associated traits are bimodal rather than binary, and along multiple, sometimes more, and sometimes less, independent dimensions. However, exploring female intuition may extend our knowledge of the human mind.
This research topic aims to start a multidisciplinary conversation about the potential existence of a form of intuition that tends to be favored by women. We would like to include perspectives from diverse disciplines, such as cognitive science and neuroscience, creativity, social, clinical, and evolutionary psychology, gender studies, sociology, management, and entrepreneurship. We welcome empirical, theoretical, as well as historical/cultural papers that address important underlying aspects of the question, even if they do not focus on women's intuition directly. We would like, among other things, to bring to the attention of a larger audience recent as well as earlier findings about the cognitive, emotional, and body-sensing differences between women and men, as well as the potential role of unconscious processes in these activities and their interaction. Ultimately, we would like to characterize a form of intuition that women tend to use as well as its capacity to function in a complementary way to the more acknowledged male form.
We welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Gender differences in brain function and information processing styles
- Insights from animal studies
- Characterization and differentiation of various forms of intuition
- The role of unconscious attention, unconscious working memory, and unconscious logic in enhancing intuition
- Potential benefits of acknowledging "not knowing"
By exploring these themes, we aim to deepen our understanding of how intuition differs between genders and the implications for decision making in personal and professional activities.
This research topic aims to start a multidisciplinary conversation about the potential existence of a form of intuition that tends to be favored by women. We would like to include perspectives from diverse disciplines, such as cognitive science and neuroscience, creativity, social, clinical, and evolutionary psychology, gender studies, sociology, management, and entrepreneurship. We welcome empirical, theoretical, as well as historical/cultural papers that address important underlying aspects of the question, even if they do not focus on women's intuition directly. We would like, among other things, to bring to the attention of a larger audience recent as well as earlier findings about the cognitive, emotional, and body-sensing differences between women and men, as well as the potential role of unconscious processes in these activities and their interaction. Ultimately, we would like to characterize a form of intuition that women tend to use as well as its capacity to function in a complementary way to the more acknowledged male form.
We welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Gender differences in brain function and information processing styles
- Insights from animal studies
- Characterization and differentiation of various forms of intuition
- The role of unconscious attention, unconscious working memory, and unconscious logic in enhancing intuition
- Potential benefits of acknowledging "not knowing"
By exploring these themes, we aim to deepen our understanding of how intuition differs between genders and the implications for decision making in personal and professional activities.
Keywords: Intuition, Gender, Gender and cognition, Unconscious information processing, Gender and emotion, Gender and interoception, Kinds of intuition, Women in leadership positions
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