Intuition: Why should we trust it?

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 12:56 p.m.

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In part one of two episodes exploring intuition, Nastaran Tavakoli-Far speaks to a detective who had an intuition that someone was a serial killer, as well as hearing stories about firefighters who saved themselves from death after listening to their intuition. \\nShe also speaks to psychologists, neuroscientists and a Nobel Prize winning economist to find out more about how intuition is formed and how it works, and also hears about intuition\\u2019s role in the world of politics.

Detective David Swindle \\u2013 Head of Crime Solutions

Prof Gary Klein \\u2013 Cognitive Psychologist and President of Shadowbox LLC

Prof Daniel Kahneman \\u2013 winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in in Economic Sciences, Psychology Professor at Princeton University, author of \\u2018Thinking fast and slow\\u2019

Prof Antonio Damasio \\u2013 professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of Southern California and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute

Dr Michelle Wright \\u2013 Investigative Psychology Researcher and Chartered Psychologist

Right Honourable Lord David Willetts \\u2013 Resolution Foundation and former UK Minster for Universities and Science

Presenter and Producer: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far\\nEditor: Richard Knight

(Image: Firefighter and Fire. Credit: Stock Photo. Getty Images )

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