Throughout their everyday lives, humans are typically required to make a wide range of decisions, which can impact their well-being, health, social connections, and finances. Understanding the human ...

Do you use these mental models for efficient decision-making in your daily life? If not, you’re missing out on the opportunity to make more thoughtful and informed choices. Mental models are cognitive ...

In a large group of independent decision-makers, those who reach a decision most quickly also tend to be those with the strongest initial biases. The finding comes from a mathematical model of ...

Handler, Abram; Larsen, Kai R.; Hackathorn, Richard. Large language models present new questions for decision support. International Journal of Information Management ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with ...