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 ...

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 ...

When you come across articles about human decision-making, whether in the popular press or scientific literature, the probability is high that the expression "cognitive bias" is likely to be used. In ...

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 ...

“How to make decisions quickly” was a question audience members asked so often in the Q&A section of my trainings and keynotes that I developed a resource to help them do so. I’m now making it ...

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 ...

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 empathy opens the window to perspective-sharing. Cognitive empathy may sound like a soft skill, but Christine Barton calls it one of the hardest to master. The Boston Consulting Group ...

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 ...