One of the stories that's making the rounds right now concerns Adam Orth, a (former) Creative Director at Microsoft who caused a ruckus by cramming his foot in his Twittermouth. He did so while ...

Most of us live in a world of full inboxes, shifting deadlines and a confusing array of acronyms and buzzwords. We often need heuristics (a mental shortcut or rule of thumb) and biases as a way of ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

In general, these heuristics are quite useful, but sometimes they lead to significant and predictable mistakes in decision making. Some examples of heuristics are ‘availability’ which involves making ...

In the post-pandemic era of accelerated digitization, an increasing number of business tools are driven by AI, allowing company leaders to derive better business intelligence, anticipate customer ...

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 ...

Not many people know about heuristics, even though we are all affected by them. Heuristics are mental shortcuts our brains use to allow us to make quick judgments about complex situations. They are ...