News tagged with human decisions
Great apes make sophisticated decisions
Chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos make more sophisticated decisions than was previously thought. Great apes weigh their chances of success, based on what they know and the likelihood to succeed when guessing, ...
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Book on teen brains can help improve decision making
Teenage brains undergo big changes, and they won't look or function like adult brains until well into one's 20s. In the first book on the adolescent brain and development of higher cognition, a Cornell professor ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Awareness biases information processing
How does awareness influence information processing during decision making in the human brain? A new study led by Floris de Lange of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Regaining trust after a transgression
the disgraced politician, chastened business leader or shamed celebrity standing before a podium offering up their apologies as the news cameras flash. "Sorry" may be the hardest word to say, but does simply owning up to ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Different ages need different risk messages, research finds
(Medical Xpress) -- From emergency evacuation notices to how many vegetables to eat, people need good information to make good choices. Ineffective risk communication, such as the drug warning inserts in tiny type on paper ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Hypothetically tweaking: Research shows questions can influence behavior, promote bias
Hypothetically speaking, if someone told you that a hypothetical question could influence your judgments or behaviour, would you believe them?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Web tool aims to improve the workplace for breast cancer survivors
In a paper to be presented at the upcoming HFES 55th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, human factors/ergonomics researchers will describe WISE, a Web-based tool for breast cancer survivors designed to reduce work disabilities ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Researchers characterize biomechanics of ovarian cells according to phenotype at stages of cancer
Using ovarian surface epithelial cells from mice, researchers from Virginia Tech have released findings from a study that they believe will help in cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, and treatment efficiency ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Researchers find smart decisions for changing environmental times
You've just been told you're going on a trip. The only problem is, you don't know where you're going, how you'll be traveling, or what you'll do when you get there.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Measuring the next generation of life-saving pollution sensors
New research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping Duvas Technologies Ltd (Duvas) to develop improved air quality monitoring instrumentation. Currently over 1bn people a year suffer from respiratory ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Marketing Researcher Takes on Human Decision Making Process
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Jesper Nielsen, a UA marketing professor and his colleague are shedding light on why people decide to avoid or gravitate to a consumer product.
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Scientists examine human behavior and the threat of disease
As swine flu spread from Mexico to Texas and then fanned out farther in the United States, Americans began to alter their behavior. Families kept children home from school, postponed trips to the mall, and stayed home instead ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confuse your moral compass
Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a neuroscience group led by corresponding author Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Our unconscious brain makes the best decisions possible
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that the human brain—once thought to be a seriously flawed decision maker—is actually hard-wired to allow us to make the best decisions possible with the information we ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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