The gaze of a humanoid robot influences the way people react to social decision-making tasks.
People's beliefs about good and evil supernatural agents are influenced by how they view their fellow humans and human behavior.
Heightened states of arousal altered neural circuits in a brain area associated with decision making, resulting in some neurons changing from decision making to internal state monitors.
A new mathematical model evaluates the influence of social learners in group decision-making and how a critical threshold is key to informed choices.
Study highlights the role dopamine receptors play in motivation and decision making.
Unexpected uncertainty is a motivator for change that prompts us to change our decisions and behaviors, even when changing the decision does not provide a better outcome.
When feeling stressed people are more likely to jump to more undesirable conclusions based on little evidence, a new study concludes.
A new study reveals how anxiety affects the decision-making process in the brain, resulting in selecting more pessimistic choices.
Preterm birth was associated with a profound reduction in connectivity between multiple brain regions and with the reconfiguration of the organization of functional brain networks.
Study reveals how decisions based on visual information, which involves a complex stream of data flowing forwards and backward along the visual pathways, are broadcast widely to neurons in the visual system, including those not involved in the decision-making process.
Rudeness in the workplace boosts negative emotions, narrowing workers' perceptions and incurring biases in judgment.
Offering a range of rewards for people to choose from helps to boost creativity, especially within the workforce, a new study reports.
