According to a study lead by Michael Pham of the Columbia University: we should trust our emotions.
Asking to his students to make predictions about different topics (including sports and political results, even forecast!) the searcher has noticed that the predictions were consistently more correct when they were based on feelings, emotions. He calls this phenomena " the effect of emotional oracle".
For the results to be convincing, the subject has to have at least a small amount of knowledge of the theme he is about to make predictions. Indeed, if the unconscious brain is quicker and able to link the information than the conscious brain, it is necessary that it has this information.
The speed of the unconscious brain is a issue raised by neurosciences since some years now, and its qualities are an obviousness.
"When we slow down in front of an obstacle while drinving a car, hopefully this is not a conscient action. The time to take the decision consciously, we already would have been hit!" stated Marc Jeannerod, director of the Institute for cognitive sciences, interviewed in an article of the CNRS's paper.
And for him to continue:
"To be conscious takes time! Hence, the unconscious assume an importance within our unsuspected behaviour. Much more that a simple support for our conscience, it would have a predominant impact in all of the cognitive evolution: 90% of our mental operation would be unconscient!".
Summerized and translated from : http://www.slate.fr/lien/51075/emotions-neurosciences-confiance
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