My research is focused on understanding the nature of intuition. Specifically, I'm trying to find out how the validity of intuition is affected by factors such as expertise and problem complexity. I teach undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology, research methods, and the psychology of creativity and intuition. I received my BA from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio and my MS, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. For more information on my research and teaching, see my website: http://www.iwu.edu/~jpretz.
Selected Publications
Is Creativity Domain-Specific? Latent Class Models of Creative Accomplishments and Creative Self-Descriptions (with Paul J. Silvia and James C. Kaufman), Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2009)
Note: This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal....
Intuition versus Analysis: Strategy and Experience in Complex Everyday Problem Solving, Memory and Cognition (2008)
Research on dual processes in cognition has found that explicit, analytical thought is more powerful...
The Creative Task Creator: A tool for the generation of customized, Web-based creativity tasks (with John A. Link), Behavior Research Methods (2008)
This article presents a Web-based tool for the creation of divergent-thinking and open-ended creativity tasks....
Measuring Individual Differences in Affective, Heuristic, and Holistic Intuition (with Kathryn Sentman Totz), Personality and Individual Differences (2007)
What is the nature of intuition? How should individual differences in intuition be measured? We...