Our hunter-gatherer ancestors are huddled around a campfire when they suddenly hear the nearby bushes rustling. They have two options: investigate if the movement was caused by small prey such as a ...

Every choice we make, from picking peanut butter to forming political opinions, is influenced by unseen cognitive biases. These mental shortcuts, shaped by evolution, help us process ...

Key points Cognitive biases are generally defined as being systematic errors in reasoning, but this definition is flawed for several reasons. There is little empirical evidence showing that biases ...

For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant making an exhausting number of tough decisions daily. Should I attend that wedding? Take that vacation? Visit those relatives? We might think we have a ...

Bring on the Machines: Could Machine Learning Improve the Quality of Patient Education Materials? A Systematic Search and Rapid Review This narrative review presents theoretical and empirical evidence ...

Have you ever made a decision that, in hindsight, seemed irrational? A new study with mice, which could have implications for people, suggests that some decisions are, to a certain extent, beyond ...

Political here does not refer to the sort of partisan nonsense that is ripping representative democracies apart at the seams. Rather, it refers to organizational politics – the sort of nonsense that, ...

We are defined by the decisions we make from the moment we wake up to when we fall asleep. Regardless of how mundane or unimportant these emotions and decisions may seem, you must learn how to remove ...

Cognitive shortcuts (or heuristics) and their consequent psychological and behavioural biases can profoundly affect and shape the judgments and decisions we make in our everyday and professional lives ...