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Our everyday lives are full of decision dilemmas. To understand why we make particular choices, scientists investigate how our brain deals with uncertainty.
New research confirms that people tend to rush to judgment, in spite of believing their own decisions and those of others are carefully based on lots of evidence and data. And that can be good or bad.
Commentators always like to imagine what players could have done better – we're using AI to prove it.
Research has shown that the most successful basketball coaches resist pressure to make changes during games. Choosing not to make a move is sometimes also the right call for business leaders.
A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
Going through the experience of regret can have a positive outcome.
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Director of the Centre for Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Associate Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer, Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University
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Postdoctoral fellow - Champalimaud Foundation, AXA Research Fund
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Harris Public Policy, University of Chicago
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Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
