Rational decision-making is different from reflex. It is a conscious process of choosing options from a range of more or less perceived possibilities. For humans, decision-making is often associated ...

Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized the concept of cognitive bias in 1972, most empirical evidence has given credence to the claim that our brain is incapable of improving our ...

How can we improve decision-making skills? My colleagues and I kept asking ourselves that question after we published our findings on the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model in 1986. Frustratingly ...

Consensus decision-making fosters collaboration but can slow progress if not managed effectively. Balancing consensus with leadership ensures efficiency without sacrificing inclusivity and engagement.

Being able to make solid decisions—sometimes quickly and with minimal information and context—is a must-have skill for business leaders and professionals hoping to advance in their careers. While ...

Researchers are training neural networks to make decisions more like humans would. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural network ...

Military personnel, firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency room physicians, and many others can find themselves in circumstances requiring rapid and accurate decisions. The consequences of ...

Emergent large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT (particularly its latest iteration, GPT-4), Claude AI and Gemini have demonstrated limited decision-making. In this article, we’ll ...

Hick’s Law explains how more choices can slow decision-making, but new research suggests fast decisions can be better when they’re driven by experience and strong pattern recognition, not guesswork.