gut feeling en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling.
Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car.
“At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.
2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, quoting Jeff Huntsinger, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021:
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