Women's intuition as attunement: a biological and social perspective.
Frontiers in sociology January 1, 2025 Shalini Verma, Lucy Raiya Kind 3 citations
Women may have developed heightened intuitive capacities, specifically attunement—the ability to somatically, emotionally, and cognitively resonate with internal states of oneself or another—due to evolutionary pressures and sociocultural reinforcement. This ability is crucial for caregiving, safety detection, and emotion regulation. Attunement can be dulled or distorted by trauma but reclaimed through healing that restores nervous system balance, granting trauma survivors more accurate intuitive access. The paper positions female intuition as a learnable, reparative human skill important in caregiving, therapy, decision making, and community life. Attunement is innate to all humans, not just women, and can be heightened by anyone.