How chronic stress warps decision-making - Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards ‘autopilot’ mode in the brain that favours rigid, habitual behaviours and away from thoughtful choices.

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Research has found that people who strive for dominance, whether in personal or professional life, are more confident in their decision-making but are no more accurate in their choices than those of a lower social status.

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Children from the US and China believe majority rules voting is a fair way to make group decisions, but not decisions on behalf of an individual. US kids also reject majority rules voting for truth and moral claims, but not preference.

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Agnostics are more indecisive, neurotic, and prone to maximizing choices, distinguishing them from atheists and Christians. Atheists and agnostics, who together constitute a significant proportion of nonbelievers in both the U.S. and Europe, have often been treated as a homogeneous group.

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Problematic usage of the internet is associated with deficits in general executive functions, decision making, and stimulus-specific inhibitory control that may evolve in later stages of addiction development. 💻🧠🚫

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Obeying orders lowers moral responsibility perception in the brain. People were asked to make moral decisions to inflict harm either freely or under coercion, and brain scans showed reduced neural markers of agency when following orders, with no difference found between civilians and officer cadets. 🧠⚖️👮‍♂️

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New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions 🧠📊. People with higher IQ make more realistic predictions 🔍, which supports better decision-making 🤔 and lead to improved life outcomes 🌟. People with low IQ make forecasting errors that are more than twice as inaccurate as those with high IQ 📉.

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People with ADHD exhibit altered brain activity before making high-stakes choices 🧠💡 | Among those with ADHD, women showed more activity in several of these regions than men, pointing to possible sex-related differences in how the brain processes decisions that involve uncertainty. ⚖️✨

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Researchers Creates Model for Understanding How the Brain’s Decision-Making 🧠 is Impacted in Psychiatric Disorders 🧩.

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Research found when people agree upon rules and work together, their brains process information in similar ways. The authors suggest this shared activity could have important implications for how groups make decisions and develop traditions and rituals 🧠🤝✨.

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⚖️💔 A new study finds that anticipating a potential loss carries more than six times the emotional impact of imagining an equivalent gain, an imbalance that helps explain why many people shy away from uncertainty and prefer decisions to be settled sooner rather than later. ⏳🧠

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Addiction is linked to inconsistent decision-making, not ignoring consequences. People who regularly use drugs may not simply ignore negative consequences—but may instead struggle to consistently act on them

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New study shows how the brain weighs evidence to make decisions

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🧠 Research published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience suggests our brains process "free" choices (based on preference) and "forced" choices (where there's only one option) in surprisingly similar ways.

📈 Brain signals representing the accumulation of evidence for each option rise steadily, like a loading bar, before a decision is made. This process occurs for both types of choices, indicating that the brain weighs evidence over time.

🤔 While the process may be automatic, the content of the evidence gathered is unique to each individual, reflecting personal preferences, goals, and experiences. This means two people can arrive at the same choice for entirely different reasons.

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Complex decisions: The faster the better - When it comes to complex strategic decisions, a shorter thinking time is associated with a higher quality of decisions.

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🧠 Study in PNAS shows faster thinking leads to higher quality complex strategic decisions, using professional chess games.

♟️ Researchers, including Prof. Uwe Sunde (LMU), analyzed player move times vs. chess engine benchmarks, finding quicker decisions correlated with better outcomes, even when decision difficulty was constant.

💡 The findings suggest longer thinking times may indicate perceived difficulty or intuition breakdown, leading to worse decisions, potentially applicable beyond chess.

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⭐ Research suggests aiming slightly above average, not for the absolute best, leads to better outcomes.

⭐ A mathematical model shows setting a threshold just above the mean reward typically results in optimal satisfaction, even more so than being too easy to please.

⭐ The study highlights the danger of social media comparisons, as distorted views of success can lead to chronic dissatisfaction.

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Physicists Discover How Slime Mold 'Makes Decisions' Without a Brain

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Brain waves reveal how alcohol cues hijack decision-making in addiction

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Adults with ADHD often struggle with choices that require weighing potential rewards against negative consequences. A new experiment reveals that a common stimulant medication improves these choices specifically by helping individuals pay more attention to the potential costs of their actions.

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