People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

In a good or a bad mood, focused or distracted, in dire or no need: our internal states directly influence our perceptions and decision-making. While the role of motivation on the performance of ...

This post is written by Bhavleen Singh, research affiliate at the Department of Economics, Monk Prayogshala. At 18, society often labels us as adults, yet this milestone merely scratches the surface ...

People tend to adjust their choices between a safe and risky decision based on their perception of an observer’s opinion, according to new research. The study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint ...

Most leadership development fails because it discounts perception. While executives perfect their skills in boardrooms, their influence evaporates in daily interactions, killed by a perception gap ...

New research has uncovered that anxiety and apathy -- two common but distinct emotional states -- lead to fundamentally different patterns in how people learn and make decisions. Making decisions in ...

How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

Making decisions in uncertain situations is part of daily life. New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has uncovered that anxiety and apathy - two common but distinct emotional ...