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During Mental Health Week, let’s look at why some people, such as those experiencing depression or substance dependency, struggle to make decisions like everyone else.
Have you ever watched something because YouTube recommended it to you? You’ve probably been influenced by an algorithm. But at the end of the day, underneath all the algorithms are people.
If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
Without transparency, algorithms will erode trust in government decision making.
Optimism and pessimism can lead to poor decision making.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised inclusive decision-making informed by scientific evidence. Such an approach would serve to depoliticise and rationalise decision-making.
The science to policy process that was developed to guide climate mitigation decisions can be applied to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, without having to be reinvented.
Is it safe to nip out for milk? Should I download the COVIDSafe app? Is it OK to wear my pyjamas in a Zoom meeting? All these extra decisions are taking their toll.
The more businesses encourage their employees to sleep well, the better their employees perform.
We don’t always realise it, but emotions play a positive role in decision making.
Transforming the civil service needs to go far beyond what degree new recruits studied.
It’s incredibly difficult to will away bad habits. But two simple strategies can make things easier.
A scholar who studies consumer decision-making explains just what it is in the human mind that makes people susceptible to nudges toward one behavior or another.
A machine learning expert predicts a new balance between human and machine intelligence is on the horizon. For that to be good news, researchers need to figure out how to design algorithms that are fair.
Emergency responders and military personnel need to think creatively – even imaginatively – to save lives under pressure. Analyzing the Grenfell Tower Fire in London reveals useful lessons.
A ‘shared decision-making’ model enables collaboration with Indigenous communities within Canada’s health-care system - to respond to TRC Calls to Action and address rising cancer rates.
How mathematically proficient are you? And do you have the skills to back up your level of math confidence? The answers to those questions may have ramifications for your financial and physical health.
Your trust in online consumer reviews may be misplaced. Check your ability to spot real from fake reviews with our quiz.
The ‘right’ amount of noise is different for everyone. That might explain why some people perform best in noisy environments, while others prefer silence.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Smithsonian Institution
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor, Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University
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Lecturer and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Biological Sciences; Director of the Cellular and Behavioral Neurobiology Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma
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Lecturer, Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Skill Acquisition and Motor Control, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate professor, UCL
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Director of Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative, Schaeffer Institute of Public Policy & Government Service, USC Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate professor, University of Wollongong
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Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh