Whether gathering berries, hunting, or fishing, humans searching for food make decisions not only based on personal ...

Betty faces a seemingly simple choice between an apple and a donut. But as we'll soon discover, the brain's decision-making process is far from straightforward. Betty is standing before the healthy ...

Clinicians who engage patients and family members in shared decision-making know that people don’t always make healthcare decisions based on what is rational. The irrationality of healthcare decisions ...

A hunger hormone produced in the gut can directly impact a decision-making part of the brain in order to drive an animal's behavior, finds a new study. A hunger hormone produced in the gut can ...

Daniel Kahneman, who understood that not all economic decision-making is strictly rational, has died at the age of 90. His research, which focused on the ways human psychology can warp rational ...