Understanding how animals and humans learn from experience to make decisions is not only a primary goal in the sciences, but, more broadly, useful in the realms of business, government, and technology ...

Logic studies how arguments work, and how ideas can fit together. Decision theory studies how decisions should be made, especially under uncertainty. Game theory considers how we reason strategically, ...

Many organizations today are overwhelmed by vast amounts of data from diverse sources, such as consumer interactions, market trends and operational processes. Mastering data management and analysis is ...

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Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

This post is a review of Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making. By Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale University Press. 277 pp. $32.50. Rational Choice Theory ...

Utilizing market research to inform decision-making begins with clearly identifying the objective: What specific goal am I looking to achieve? The scope and nature of the decision to be made will ...

Overall, the model described in the new Nature study matched the decision-making processes of humans, non-human primates, and laboratory rats. Notably, the model predicted decisions that were ...