Decision Making

Tilt

Annie Duke | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Poker Tilt, Poker, Decision Making Skills, Business, Tilt, Poker Advice, Business Advice, Decision Making, Business News

If you have a bad thing happen to you because you did something wrong, that is something you can fix. You can strive to not do that again. You can learn from your mistakes. You can analyze what you did wrong so you don't repeat it going forward.

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Myopic Misery: The Financial Cost of Sadness

Wray Herbert | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Emotions, Impulsivity, Judgment, Money, Personal Finance, Sadness, Depression, Self-Discipline, Impatience, Decision Making, Delayed Gratification, Behavioral Economics, Science News

Apparently, sadness has the effect of bringing to mind "take the money and run" rationalizations, rapidly and elaborately, which can lead to lousy judgments and real financial losses.

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The Miracle Of Motherhood Your Way

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women?S Wisdom, Motherhood, Balance, Career, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, Women?S Bodies, Mothering, Work Life Balance, Decision-Making, Emotional Wellness, Parenting, Healthy Living News

Even though I had spent much of the five years prior to my daughter Annie's birth delivering babies and marveling at how infinitely varied were the ways in which their mothers responded to them, I was completely unaware of what my own response would be.

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Against All Odds

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Mindfulness, Risk Factors, Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Decision-Making, Bad Decisions, Good Decisions, Gps-Soul, Risk, Healthy Living News

Certainty is seductive. But the reality is that we live in a sea of uncertainty. While the complexity of the kaleidoscopic forces that drive our choices is overwhelming, there are things we can do in order to encourage better decision-making.

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New Research Hints At 'Underpinnings' Of Religious Faith

| Greg Miller | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Religion, Video, Analytical-Reasoning, Religious Psychology, New Research, Intuition, Theology, Psychology, Decision Making, Religious Beliefs, Science News

Many people with religious convictions feel that their faith is rock solid. But a new study finds that prompting people to engage in analytical thinki...

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How to Spot a Scoundrel: Fidgeting and Trust

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Opportunism, Cooperation, Trust, Judgment, Decision Making, Social Cognition, Behavioral Economics, Science News

Since trust and cooperation are so essential to the smooth working of human society, it makes sense that people would have learned over eons both to send signals of trustworthiness and to interpret signs of malicious intent.

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Getting Over the Road Not Traveled

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Regret, Scientific American, Decision-Making, The Road Not Taken, Difficult Choices, Science of Regret, Depression, Undecided, Stefanie Brassen, Women News

What age takes away in collagen and hangover resilience, it gives back in the form of a certain kind of contentment.

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Decision Maker

Joan Burge | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Decision Making Advice, Decision Making Skills, Decision-Making, Decision Maker, Decision-Making-Tips, Money News

Decision-making skills are key for productivity and growth. Do not underestimate that even the smallest decision could change your life forever. What is your decision-making process?

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The Surprising Benefits of Corporate Disunity

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Organizational Psychology, Group Behavior, White House, Judgment, West Wing, Ethics, Business, Decision Making, Corporations, Corporate Disunity, Corporate Psychology, Science News

The scientists' theory goes like this: As unified leadership teams splinter into factions, the key players become more competitive and more vigilant in monitoring one another.

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Shooting to Kill

The Daily Princetonian | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Decision-Making, Trayvon Martin, Gun Laws, Portland Oregon, Princeton University, Stand Your Ground, Racism, Race Relations, College News

Disregarding the importance of race is tantamount to disregarding the important of emotions. We cannot change -- at least not with great speed or conviction -- our visceral response to race.

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Success in the Market: New Rules or Old Brain?

Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Investing, Neuroscience, Wall Street, Decision-Making, Finance, Behavioral Economics, Stock-Market-Tips, Stock Market Advice, Money News

Making meaning is a fundamental brain addiction with a pesky non-discerning quality to it that makes it tough to know when it is serving you and when it isn't. To me this is the only rule one needs to remember.

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How To Change Habits And Start Making Decisions

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: How to Change Habits, Video, Bad Habits, Change Habits, Decision Making, Habit Loop, Reuters, Healthy Living News

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - Understanding habits can help people radically transform their lives and companies ...

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Why You And Your Spouse Should Get A Second Opinion

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Marriage, First Time Buyers, Home Buying, Marital Decision Making, Buying a House, Decision Making, Buying a Home, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Did we bother to discuss the wisdom of this enormous investment with anyone else -- a financial planner, perchance? A savvy friend? An architect or engineer? Of course not.

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Break Through Your Mental Bureaucracy

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Leadership, Decision-Making, Managing Yourself, Business News

Most dysfunctional compartmentalization is unconscious. We don't intentionally act differently in different settings or try to pigeonhole people. But the bad news is it happens all the same.

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Learn to Trust Your Gut

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Decision-Making, Managing Yourself, Self Management, Challenging Authority, Dealing With Authority, Self-Reliance, Authority Figures, Business News

Most of us are programmed from an early age to defer to authority even if we don't understand or agree with the instructions. So how can you counter your conditioning and question authority? Here are some ways to start.

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Why Do People Still Bother to Write Books?

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Decision-Making, Books, Writing, Authors, Being a Writer, Writing a Novel, Writing a Book, Books News

People want to write books for a lot of reasons. They want to be famous. They want to make a pile of money. They want everybody from high school to see that they're not a big fat loser after all. But there's really only one good reason to write a book.

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Occupy Your Company: Three Leadership Lessons from Zuccotti Park

Daniel Dworkin | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Leadership, Decision-Making, Occupy Wall Street, Business, Management, Occupy Movement, Communication, Community Development, Human Microphone, Zuccotti Park, Business News

The Occupy Wall Street protesters have taught us a number of critical lessons about mobilizing movements that leaders -- whether business, political, or non-profit -- should bear in mind.

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Habit #4: Listening for "What Wants to Happen"

Willow Dea | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Intuition, Morphogenetic-Field, Education, Active Listening, Teaching, Decision-Making, Education News

Another way of making a decision is not to. Listening for what wants to happen is to follow the intelligence of the intersubjective space, the morphog...

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Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic

David Ropeik | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Optimism Bias, Affect Heuristic, Heuristics and Biases, Risk Perception, Psychology, Availability Heuristic, Loss Aversion, Kahneman, Mind, Decision Making, Fischhoff, Risk, Finucane, Lichetenstein, Slovic, Books News

If you want to know what goes on in your brain as you "think", and you can only read one of the flood of recent books on the subject, you can not do better than Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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Balancing Money & Happiness: A Discussion With Daniel Kahneman (VIDEO)

Laura Rowley | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Thinking: Fast and Slow, Money and Happiness, Nobel Prize, Video, Heuristics, Framing, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Prospect Theory, Heuristics and Biases, Biases, Nobel Prize in Economics, Decision Making, Fifty News

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most important thinkers on human decision making. The Princeton psychologist won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002 fo...

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Life & Happiness With Laura Rowley: How To Boost Willpower

Laura Rowley | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Roy Baumeister, New Year's Resolutions, Decision-Making, Smart Decisions, Decision Fatigue, Willpower, Self-Control, Decision Making, Choice Overload, Video, Fifty News

The holidays are definitely a season of multiple decisions -- gifts and decorations, menus and invitations -- and choice overload can weaken our willp...

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How Drug Advertisements Affect Our Emotions And Decisions

Big Think | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Marketing, Drug Advertisements, Health Post50, Big Think, Decision Making, Drug Companies, Fifty News

In today's technologically-driven digital age, consumers are constantly inundated with drug advertisements that encourage active engagement in making ...

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The Surprising Link Between Self-Esteem And Disease Prevention

Wray Herbert | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Self-Affirmation, Health Psychology, Health Screening, Judgment, Self-Esteem, Cancer, Disease Prevention, Decision Making, Psychology of Health Screenings, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

Many get screened for diseases, but millions also opt out, actively avoiding information about their true health status. Why is that? What makes some people choose to know, while others refuse?

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Untranslatable Too

Tamsin Smith | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Yoga, Walt Whitman, Decision-Making, Duende, Poetry, Mindful Living News

Walt Whitman is by turns comforting and disturbing me today. It's why I sought him out. I'm overdue for a good cage rattling. Time to tip myself si...

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Is Willpower Harder For Women?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Rachel Combe, Stress, Women, John Tierney, Decision-Making, Willpower, Thanksgiving, Kelly McGonigal, Roy-F-Baumeister, Surviving the Holidays, Women News

A couple of new books dig into the science of willpower, and their findings reveal that the current reality of women's lives leaves us particularly challenged.

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