what is actually happening psychologically/physiologically when you have a “gut feeling” about something?

Question

what is actually happening psychologically/physiologically when you have a “gut feeling” about something?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I highly recommend a book called *The Gift of Fear*. It deals with gut feelings, red flags, intuition, etc. All of that. He describes gut feelings (and I’m paraphrasing here) as your mind creating a reaction in your body based on previously learned information before you know why.