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Many say that with age comes wisdom, but I wanted to share with you the results of a study that shows this is not necessarily true. During the investigation, the experts found that going through a lot of life experiences does not improve one's decision-making skills.
French and American scientists, writing in ... |
14 February 2012
08:48 GMT |
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New Year's resolutions are usually kept for a few hours, or a few days, at best. Instances in which such a decision is respected for prolonged periods of time is rare, but scientists think they've discovered a way to help people do so successfully. University of Leeds Institute of Psychological Science exp... |
6 January 2012
09:17 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that the brains of seniors are just as capable of performing certain mental tasks as the young brain. This is not the case for all types of tasks, of course, but even so, the finding puts a dent in previous theories on the issue.
For many ye... |
28 December 2011
05:53 GMT |
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While the effects of fatigue on the decisions people make in a specific situation have been widely studied, the same cannot be said for how groups handle themselves in the same scenarios. In a new study, experts prove that teamwork improves decision-making in nearly all situation.Interestingly, the team behind the ne... |
18 August 2011
10:05 GMT |
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There are many types of gamblers out there, and each of them makes its decisions based on certain patterns. In a new study, experts analyzed their brains, and were able to find the regions that are involved in underlying all the different types of decision-making behaviors. This work is very important for understandi... |
5 May 2011
05:26 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts managed to demonstrate that meditation can be a powerful tool for making rational decisions, as well as for dealing with unfair situations when they present themselves.Researches such as this one are informed by the fact that practitioners of Buddhism, who are known to meditate for ... |
21 April 2011
08:59 GMT |
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In a new set of investigation, researchers looked at how very small ant colonies, containing on average just about 200 members, choose a new home when their old one is destroyed. The team learned that there is no single ant that calls the shots, and that the decisions are taken by the collective intelligence.These so... |
3 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Investigations conducted over the past few years have sought to determine how people go about taking into account risk when making decisions. This may be simple for single people, but all dynamics change inside couples, where important decisions are taken together. In most healthy relationships, men and women discuss... |
29 October 2010
20:01 GMT |
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A director of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that big food companies and large agricultural producers are currently blocking reforms that would improve food production, human health, and the environment. The official explains that these corporations spend millions of d... |
24 September 2010
08:19 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the University of Bristol announce the conclusions of a new study they conducted on the general British population. The scientists say that their survey found that the country is virtually crippled by the vast number of choice its people are confronted with daily. The team believes that h... |
3 August 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Since the advent of the Greek civilization, philosophers have begun wondering whether we really possess free will, in the strictest sense of the term. They were curious to know whether human beings could indeed take completely independent decisions that were not in the slightest influenced by external factors, or oth... |
3 March 2010
20:11 GMT |
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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
06:01 GMT |
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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
18:31 GMT |
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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
05:40 GMT |
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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
18:01 GMT |
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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
05:30 GMT |
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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
10:26 GMT |
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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
16:01 GMT |
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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
05:56 GMT |
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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
07:07 GMT |
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