Tag: decision-making
How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science
Caption: Sad business woman (pxhere)
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal led to a massive fall in the Facebook’s stock price, governments around the world...
Knowing Just Enough To Be Dangerous: How Overconfidence Subverts Rational Politics
By Joel Lehman
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
-Shakespeare
It happens every year. It’s the...
What Would Gandhi Do About Trump? High-Time For a Science Of Wisdom
Written by Charles Cassidy MPhys, Director of Evidence-based Wisdom
It was 3:30 AM, and my wife and I were crumpled in stunned silence in the...
Stop Losing Money: Invest Wisely
You’re probably losing money right now, without even knowing it! Why? Well, if you have money sitting in a bank account that’s giving you...
How To Avoid Impulsive Temptations
Imagine that every day in your office, there is a lady that drives a small basket of cakes, with your favourite chocolate donuts. In...
9 Strategies for Effective Donors
You're generous and kind. You care about other people and want to help them have great lives. You want to make a positive impact...
Video: How To Reach Your Personal and Societal Goals
Author’s photo with an earring, which he got intentionally to project an image to others so as to achieve his social goals
The science of...
How I Escaped The Darkness of Mental Illness
Hot tears were streaming down my face. My chest heaved up and down with heavy sobs. I couldn’t stop them, no matter what I...
Video: 4 Strategies to Protect Yourself From Thinking Errors
Dr. Hal Arkes
Our minds are wired to make irrational decisions and commit a wide variety of thinking errors, called cognitive biases by scholars. Yet...
Religious and Rational?
“Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square she raises her voice.”
Proverbs 1:20 Common English Bible
The Biblical book of Proverbs is full of...