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Confidence is shown by nerve cell activity
Should I or should I not? The activity of individual nerve cells in the brain tells us how confident we […]
Tag Archives: decisions
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Why we distort probability
Scientists identify the cognitive limitations that hamper our decision-making The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are vanishingly small — […]
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‘Where are my keys?’ and other memory-based choices probed in the brain
Neuroscientists have identified neurons responsible for making memory-based decisions Most of us know that feeling of trying to retrieve a […]
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Decide now or wait for something better?
Be it booking flight tickets, buying a car or finding a new apartment, we always come up against the same […]
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Get it over with, or procrastinate? New research explores our decision-making process
When it’s time to schedule a vacation, most people will do it right away. But when it comes to booking […]
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Study finds people are more satisfied after quitting the status quo
A paper in The Review of Economic Studies, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people who use a coin […]
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How the brain helps us make good decisions — and bad ones
A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal […]
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Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait oftentimes associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use […]
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Education improves decision-making ability, study finds
There has been interest across behavioral and social sciences – including psychology, economics and education – in whether people are […]
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In gut we trust when it comes to choices
Decisions recruiting gut feelings seen as reflection of true self, more assuredly held, study says Why do some people trust […]