The brain is wired for shortcuts and speed, not always for accuracy. It’s not a flaw; it’s just nature’s way of helping us survive. However, the errors in our thinking, also known as cognitive biases, ...

There's a correlation between high levels of some biases and unfavorable financial outcomes, research shows. These connections hold true even when controlling for demographic information like age, ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions — they ...

Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

Covid-19 has radically changed the nature of shopping. In what analysts called a “holiday shopping season like none other,” brick-and-mortar stores took a brutal blow in late 2020, but the shopping ...

Cognitive biases can pop up when your brain uses existing knowledge to make decisions quickly. In some cases, cognitive bias may lead you to make a snap judgment before thinking things through.

Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia's multilingual content, according to a team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from Johns Hopkins University. By creating ...

Most decisions we make involve some sort of a shortcut. But when we rely on these shortcuts too much, they evolve into biases—and these biases can lead to financial mistakes. Our research explored the ...

Political here does not refer to the sort of partisan nonsense that is ripping representative democracies apart at the seams. Rather, it refers to organizational politics – the sort of nonsense that, ...

In 1800, 10 percent of the world’s population could read and write; today it’s 86 percent. Before 1893, women had the right to vote in zero countries; today women vote in 99 percent of the world. In ...