If you've ever wondered why you keep making bad choices, the clue might lie in which cues you rely upon when making a decision.

When it comes to decision-making, your brain is both your best friend and your worst enemy. It’s constantly processing information, often leading you to conclusions that seem logical on the surface ...

When people learn that surrounding visuals and sounds may signify specific choice outcomes, these cues can become guides for ...

Everyday sights and sounds quietly shape the choices people make, often without them realizing it. New research suggests that ...

New Year’s Eve means parties. Everyone is excited to say goodbye to the old and ring in the new. Often, those parties are not at your home and sometimes involve ...

Indecisiveness is often based on black-and-white thinking, catastrophic thinking, personalizing, and extreme self-doubt. The black-and-white thinking style, prevalent in the obsessive-compulsive ...

Why do well-intentioned people still cause harm? This piece brings together ten psychology books that explain how bias, self-justification, social pressure and moral shortcuts quietly shape bad ...

Why do we sometimes regret the choices we make? The obvious answer is that we sometimes make bad choices, with unforeseen (though not necessarily unforeseeable) negative consequences. But that's not ...