The second aim of the current paper is to provide explanations for recent findings on the depression-intuition interplay and to present directions for future research that may help to broaden our understanding of decision difficulties in depression. First, our aim is to establish the hypothesis that intuition is impaired in depression against the background of influential theoretical accounts as well as empirical evidence from basic and clinical research. In contrast to healthy individuals who take most daily life decisions intuitively ( Kahneman, 2011), depressed individuals seem to have difficulties to come to fast and adaptive decisions. This is astonishing because a well-known phenomenon during depression is that patients have difficulties to judge and decide. Whereas in basic research, intuition has become a topic of great interest, clinical research and depression research in specific have not applied to the topic of intuition, yet.
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