To date, I’ve written a fair amount about human decision-making on this site. However, one topic is an implicit focus in many of the posts I write. Still, it seldom ever receives explicit attention: ...
When the clock is ticking, the stakes are sky-high, and every choice carries immense weight, how do you perform? Whether it's ...
Even though I thought I compared them calmly, why do I end up deciding based on emotion?”When you express anger in a conflict, it signals to the other party that you will respond even if it means ...
Thinking in terms of structure does not mean erasing emotionThroughout this series, I have consistently talked about "viewing ...
Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the ...
A series exploring how risk shapes our decisions. Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public ...
When making economic decisions, humans can be driven by various factors, including their goals and emotions. Past studies have hypothesized that emotions play a crucial role in economic decisions, ...
Chandra is an emergency physician and global health policy specialist. Hoover is a former federal worker, sociobehavioral researcher, and global health technical specialist. We both lost our jobs as ...
We make very different choices depending on what takes the dominant role in decision-making: the head or the heart. Behavioral economists have long relished exposing our illogic when it comes to ...
We often associate decision-making with rationality. Deciding implies a certain neutrality in our minds, to ensure that our choices are correct. But for some thinkers, such as Bordeaux University ...
Emotion often gets short shrift when it comes to decision-making. Most dual-process decision-making perspectives place emotion into the System 1 domain. These perspectives then explicitly position it ...