One phenomenon that illustrates why one should not rely on intuition and common sense when trying to explain why people act, think, and feel the way they do.

Judgmental overconfidence is one phenomenon that illustrates why one should not rely on intuition and common sense when trying to explain why people act, think, and feel the way they do.

Explanation:

When the judgement or conclusions of a person, about an event  is having  confidence which is more subjective then this is known as Judgmental overconfidence. This happens because the confidence of the person viewing the event will be high. The accuracy in terms of objectivity will be lesser in this type of Judgmental confidence.

Some person may think their performance to be too good compared with others or they can sometime have overestimation of their abilities. A person can have Judgmental overconfidence when he has higher self esteem or he may be expertise in a particular subject. This is the phenomenon that explains the effects of the person who depend on intuition to describe he way a particular person acts.  

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