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.
Articles on Decisions
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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.
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.
Our everyday lives are full of decision dilemmas. To understand why we make particular choices, scientists investigate how our brain deals with uncertainty.
New research confirms that people tend to rush to judgment, in spite of believing their own decisions and those of others are carefully based on lots of evidence and data. And that can be good or bad.
Commentators always like to imagine what players could have done better – we’re using AI to prove it.
Research has shown that the most successful basketball coaches resist pressure to make changes during games. Choosing not to make a move is sometimes also the right call for business leaders.
A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
Going through the experience of regret can have a positive outcome.
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
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FAPESP-Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Structural Biology and Zoochemistry, IB/RC (UNESP), University of São Paulo State
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Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Oxford
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Founder Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Health Economics, UMass Amherst
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chercheur CNRS en psychologie expérimentale, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL
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Postdoctoral fellow - Champalimaud Foundation, Fundación Champalimaud
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Assistant Professor of Habit Change, Bond University
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Director of the Centre for Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor, Research Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University