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feeling our Way With intuition
to use intuition. Indeed, some male participants suggested they would
sometimes invite the intuitive judgments of women they knew and
trusted. Significantly, women were perceived by both men and women
in the study to be more likely to use the word “intuition”, or words
that can be seen to imply intuition, particularly “feeling” words: “e
women want to talk about what they’re feeling and experiencing and
theblokeswant to talk about [laughs], you know, they get very irritated
by this process because they don’t want to talk about this stuff” (Robson,
2011, p. 177). Women, in general, were perceived to be more in touch
with their feelings and, as a consequence, their intuitions: “Ijust think
that women have a ...