The author reviewed the research on the impact of cognitive biases on professionals'
decision-making in four occupational areas (management, finance, medicine, and law). Two …

Over the last two decades, there has been a growing interest in the study of individual
differences in how people's judgments and decisions deviate from normative standards. We …

A crisis requires the affected population, governments or non-profit organizations, as well as
crisis experts, to make urgent and sometimes life-critical decisions. With the urgency and …

Rational thinking describes the ability to suppress heuristic thinking processes and to
override them with systematic ones. In view of the high degree of required self-organization …

Visual inspections have been typically used in condition assessment of infrastructure.
However, they are based on human judgment and their interpretation of data can differ from …

Providing a panoramic overview of the evolving world of scenario planning, this Advanced
Introduction uses topical case studies to analyze the developing methodologies of scenario …

Around one third of people across populations hold beliefs in epistemically unwarranted
claims and theories. Why this effect is so strong remains elusive. In three studies (total N …

We conducted two studies with two goals in mind. First, we investigated the dimensionality of
several prominent cognitive bias tasks to see whether a single rationality factor can explain …

The study of individual differences in rational decision-making has led to two close streams
of research. While the study of scores to the Adult-Decision Making Competence (A-DMC) …

Background: Cognitive biases are popular topics in psychology and marketing, as they refer
to systematic cognitive tendencies in human thinking that deviate from logical and rational …