A few years ago, I read “Six Thinking Hats” by psychologist Edward de Bono. The core idea is simple: each hat represents a distinct way of thinking about a problem. While the framework is often ...

We make approximately 35,000 decisions every day, including dozens of tiny and major decisions on what to wear, what to eat, which route to take to work, where to go for lunch, and so on. It's ...

Evidence-based decision making (EBDM)—using the best available evidence from multiple sources to make informed decisions—is critical to the success of any organization. In a new study, researchers ...

The rapid growth of digital technologies in the last quarter-century has multiplied the number and types of possible influences on individual values and opinions. Has the digital era changed the level ...

Cognitive bias is alleged to have contributed to the downing of the Iran Air Flight 655 by the US navy, which killed 290 people in July 1988. Bandar Abbas/AFP Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

Decision-making inherently involves cause–effect relationships that introduce causal challenges. We argue that reliable algorithms for decision-making need to build upon causal reasoning. Addressing ...

As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the business world, a more subtle but equally powerful force is emerging: intuitive decision-making. Executives increasingly recognize that combining rational ...

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In today’s fast-paced and information-driven world, making well-informed decisions requires more than just intuition. It demands access to reliable data, efficient analysis, and clear visualization.

Individual decision-making is a key research area in microeconomics and a considerable amount of theoretical and experimental research has been devoted to its analysis. However, many decisions in ...