Everyone has some cognitive bias. These automatic thought processes can help you make decisions — or lead you astray. Here's ...

The task of being an effective leader is a difficult one. All the real work of organizations gets done through people, individually or collectively, on their own or in collaboration with technology.

Small, subtle, instinctual biases in our heads affect our everyday decisions. Many of them are helpful: don't go into the woods alone at night. Some of them can be less helpful. The fact of the matter ...

This is Part 1 of a series diving into why so much medical news is wrong—lazy research, flawed studies, and media spin all play a part. From confirmation bias and cognitive bias to pseudoscience, ...

Amanda Montell has come on Marketplace a few times about the cult of work. We talked about why culty workplaces, like Neiman Marcus in the ‘80s, are so effective. We’ve also talked about the downsides ...

The investigation of affective states and cognitive bias in animal behaviour has emerged as a critical area of research, shedding light on how emotional states influence decision-making, perception ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions — they ...

Human perception is a remarkable mechanism. Meaningless information enters our five senses and is transformed via transduction. Our sensations are disassembled, using bottom-up and top-down processing ...