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CHAPTER 3: THE SCIENCE OF INTUITION
The HeartMath Institute, Boulder Creek, CA, in concert with other organizations, is leading the way in the scientific study of intuition, both general intuition and business intuition.
Their Director of Research, Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., has developed or participated in the development of scientific research protocols and experiments to objectively measure future intuition or what they call “non-local intuition.”
Here’s an excerpt from a research proposal by La Pira, Atkinson and Scicluna that describes the issue with intuitive research and a couple of the protocols that have been followed:
“The scientific understanding of intuition in business has not progressed very far in the last 50 years due to two major limitations in the current research on intuition.
“First, much of the work is theoretical in nature and makes no contribution to an understanding of the conditions under which and processes by which individuals access and successfully use intuition to inform their business decisions and behavior.
“Second, beyond qualitative approaches relying on the case-study method and quantitative approaches
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