Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

Do politicians use the representativeness heuristic when making judgements, that is, when they appraise the likelihood or frequency of an outcome that is unknown or unknowable? Heuristics are ...

A lot of scientific and popular decision-making literature is couched in a dual-process model [1]. The dual-process model pits the relatively automatic, heuristic-driven, and unconscious System 1 ...

A lot of scientific and popular decision-making literature is couched in a dual-process model [1]. The dual-process model pits the relatively automatic, heuristic-driven, and unconscious System 1 ...

There is increasing attention to decision making in social work as we become more concerned about 'risk' and the most effective design of assessment tools to aid professional judgement. In order to ...

Emergency department physicians who saw patients with a pulmonary embolism - a blood clot in the lung - were about 15% likelier over the next 10 days to test subsequent patients for the same thing.

Consumers behave in many different ways, and marketers and companies need to understand how consumers make their buying decisions. Decision Heuristics are the kind of internal criteria that consumers ...