Inside the mind of a decision scientist: What influences what we choose.

Investing in the financial markets is a complex endeavor influenced not only by economic factors and market dynamics but also by human behavior. Traditional finance theory assumes that investors make ...

People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

A new study reveals that people are far more emotionally affected by anticipating negative future outcomes than by imagining ...

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A common belief is that compulsive behaviors trap people in a “habit loop” that takes over self-control. New research, however, suggests this explanation may be incomplete. For many years, compulsive ...

Encoding individual behavioral traits into a low-dimensional latent representation enables the accurate prediction of decision-making patterns across distinct task conditions.

A hunger hormone produced in the gut can directly impact a decision-making part of the brain in order to drive an animal's behavior, finds a new study. A hunger hormone produced in the gut can ...

Data gives you clarity, but it doesn’t give you wisdom. Intuition gives you speed, but it doesn’t always give you accuracy.

Betty faces a seemingly simple choice between an apple and a donut. But as we'll soon discover, the brain's decision-making process is far from straightforward. Betty is standing before the healthy ...

Advances in biomarker-driven and individualized approaches in neurology and psychiatry will require new frameworks for value ...