Researchers are investigating the use of AI technology in complex decision-making situations with the goal to identify the best human attributes artificial intelligence can mimic when faced with making difficult decisions in extreme situations.
When it's more helpful to think ahead, people rely on the memories of previous experiences to help make choices.
In healthy adults, daily fluctuations in mood do not affect confidence in decision-making.
How quickly our eyes dart when faced with a range of options gives new clues about how we make decisions.
Decision-making requires two different brain areas that mature at different times during the teenage years. This may help parents understand why their teens are more prone to making risky decisions.
Motivation influences neural networks associated with perception and impacts our decision-making skills.
Even though people engage in seemingly impulsive decision-making, they may actually be predisposed to curtail it.
Moral illusions can fool our decision-making, making us more selfish, a new study reveals.
Video game players are faster and more accurate in their responses, and excel at decision-making tasks. The differences in accuracy and reaction time correlated with enhanced brain activity.
Study reveals how specific tasks are distributed to different areas within the prefrontal cortex to help with decision-making processes.
A new mathematical model has the potential to accurately distinguish a misunderstanding from false information and lies.
A new theory of decision-making helps explain why humans often make decisions that are simply adequate, not optimal. According to the theory, people often use relative thinking when they should use absolutes, and vice-versa.