Decision-making in high-stakes, dangerous situations is challenging, to say the least. Time pressure, limited information, confusion, fatigue, and mortality salience combine to set the stage for ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

‘Give it some thought’ might actually be bad advice.

This gentleman, running from the LA cops, misunderstood the sightlines and LAPD's love of helicopter surveillance. When his ingenious hiding place proved not so ingenious, he drove straight into ...

It was a Words with Friends chat that first gave Megan Phelps-Roper pause. People have a marked tendency to cling to past investments, whether financial, social, or emotional—even when it becomes ...

Smart leaders with vast data still make bad decisions. But others, under similar pressure, make game-changing ones. In 1982, Johnson & Johnson swiftly recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol after ...

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