Intuition in Crisis Management: Cognitive styles, processing and performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to test an integrated model of intuitive and analytic cognitive style, degree of expertise, intuitive processing, and task performance in a simulated crisis management environment. We found that intuitive processing was predicted by interactions of intuitive cognitive style and both analytic cognitive style and level of expertise. Furthermore, the relationship between the interaction of analytic and intuitive cognitive style and task performance was mediated by intuitive processing. There was no relationship between the interaction of expertise and intuitive cognitive style and task performance. Our results contribute to the understanding of how intuitive and analytic cognitive style, and degree of expertise, may affect intuitive processing and task performance in crisis management.