In many of today's jobs, people are required to make judgments of value in the heat of the moment, by weighing the pros and cons of a situation as fast as possible, and then deciding on a course of action that they need to communicate to others. When this is done by team leaders and managers, their decisions hav... |
27 October 2009
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The goal of offering robots a sense of morality was recently brought one step closer by researchers in Portugal and Indonesia, when they introduced a new approach on decision-making, based on computational logic. Their efforts are described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intellige... |
25 August 2009
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Recently, a large number of scientific studies was focused on the issue of decision-making, as experts wanted to identify when the best moment to decide something was, as well as what factors needed to be taken into account in these circumstances. While some of them found that it was best for people to sleep on it, a... |
22 June 2009
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The human brain's plasticity – its property of actually changing its internal structure in order to match the way we use it – is well known among experts in the field, but, now, they've also discovered that the circuitry in the cortices is changed by our past experiences. That is to say, when we... |
14 May 2009
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A new scientific investigation has uncovered the fact that Americans tend to order healthy foods while going out, if all the nutritional values for every product are inscribed on the menu. As more and more people discontinue the century-old tradition of eating indoors with the family, and start having most of their m... |
1 April 2009
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Researchers in the fields of psychology and behavioral studies are currently fascinated by the attraction that popular social media exerts on each individual, and are very surprised at the fact that it's not us who influence others, but others who make their point of view more clear than we do. So, in light of t... |
23 March 2009
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Despite the popular belief that labels the decisions made by large groups of people with traits such as “herd mentality,” “angry mob,” or “mass hysteria,” recent scientific and psychological studies have revealed that larger numbers of individuals actually seem to give more accurat... |
11 March 2009
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For people who always say they are in control of their own lives, this new scientific study may come as an unpleasant surprise, as it states that the choices we make, regardless of how strong we feel about them at the time, can easily be overridden by peer pressure, or by others in our social network. This again goes... |
12 February 2009
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If you were among those who thought eating was only designed for the pleasure (or on the contrary, the extreme distress) of our digestive tract and our figures, think again - as a recent study has come up with a rather surprising conclusion. Eating, say scientists from the Cambridge University in Britain, can be the ... |
6 June 2008
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