From theory to judgement: using role play to assess students’ decision-making skills Students can explain theories. But can they challenge them? A structured role-play approach helps assess critical ...

In the largest experiment studying people's "risky choices" to date, researchers show how machine learning can be used to test and improve long-stagnant theories of human decision-making.

There is a disconnect between what we think happens when we make a decision and what actually happens in the brain during that process, suggests Indiana University Professor of Psychological and Brain ...

A new theory of economic decision-making offers an explanation as to why humans, in general, make decisions that are simply adequate, not optimal. A new theory of economic decision-making from Mina ...

There is no Planet B. Source: Markus Spiske/Pexels What is your experience of the recent heatwaves scorching Western Europe, the United States, and China? While my toddler rejoices in the almost ...

Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working in collaboration with a team from the University of Texas at El Paso, have developed a novel computational framework for ...

Historically, emotions have been viewed as irrational, unstable or primitive—hardly the stuff of sound decision-making. Enlightenment thinkers like Descartes and Kant privileged reason as the highest ...

Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working in collaboration with a team from the University of Texas at El Paso, have developed a novel computational framework for ...