Going With Your Gut Feeling: Intuition Alone Can Guide Right Choice, Study Suggests

"Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South -- and how both instinct and intellect figure into the process. Now new research indicates that the old truism 'look before you leap' may be less true than previously thought."