About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore work culture, collaboration & management evolution. This article is more than 10 years old. Mike Gotta, an influential ...

Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, discovered through his research that people trust those they view as experts in their sphere of influence. He documented and proved the correlation ...

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 ...

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This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. In artificial intelligence (AI), a heuristic is a problem-solving approach that employs practical, experience-based strategies to find ...

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 ...

Investors have recently been flocking to “safe-haven” investments like U.S. treasury bonds, gold and other commodities. These assets tend to stay valuable in uncertain times. At times of geopolitical ...