Smart minds weigh more variables, consider more outcomes and carry heavier cognitive loads. Here’s how decision fatigue ...

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite research that studies the role of habits in decision-making. How habits influence actions is a ...

A decision-making toolbox can help you avoid the traps of unnecessary complexity. When confronted with alternative concepts or decision-making, I am fond of reminding myself and others to avoid the ...

Everyday sights and sounds quietly shape the choices people make, often without them realizing it. New research suggests that some individuals become especially influenced by these environmental cues, ...

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 ...

Decision neuroscience is a rapidly advancing field aimed at understanding how neural circuits give rise to behavioral choices. Recent research highlights ...

Making decisions is a key aspect of our brains and daily lived experiences. Whether we realize it or not, we are constantly making decisions. Those decisions are driven by different models, some of ...

Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...