Decision-Making

Making decisions under pressure can blur people’s judgment in at least three ways:

• Under stress, we tend to behave as if we are under time pressure even when we’re not. We often have more time than we think.
• Pressure leads people to ...

The fact that we live in an age of information should allow us to make super-informed, data-driven decisions all the time.

But the widespread availability of information does not mean that we actually use it even if we have it: decades of research in psychology and behavio...

A neuroscientist studied people with damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated. He found that they were unable to feel emotions. They were also unable to make decisions. 

They could describe what they should be doing in logical terms but fo...