If you’d like to improve your life, thinking about your current situation and your goals might help. And the goals you bring ...

About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...

Biases are known to influence decision-making. No one is exempt, once categorise or prioritise and take decisions based on ...

Cognitive shortcuts (or heuristics) and their consequent psychological and behavioural biases can profoundly affect and shape the judgments and decisions we make in our everyday and professional lives ...

Human behavior is, well, human. Much of people's behavior represents automatic responses to their environment without awareness why they’re responding this way. Many of these automatic responses are ...

If a prior patient had complications in one childbirth delivery mode, a physician may be more likely to switch to the other—and likely inappropriate—delivery mode for the subsequent patient, a new ...

Knowing something about the person writing an opinion piece is important (“Fearing Immigration Sweeps, College Students Scrub Op-Eds,” U.S. News, April 25). Biases, heuristics and narratives are ...

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” So wrote Anais Nin, rather succinctly describing the unfortunate melange of biases that accompany these otherwise perfectly well-functioning ...