Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cognitive errors like confirmation bias can lead to diagnostic inaccuracy in rheumatology. Misdiagnosis of ...

A new study published in Addictive Behaviors Reports suggests that the anxiety of missing out on social events can fuel ...

When you come across articles about human decision-making, whether in the popular press or scientific literature, the probability is high that the expression "cognitive bias" is likely to be used. In ...

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

People are not always rational agents. We all make mistakes – this is what makes us human. However, for the longest time, economic theory has made assumptions about behavior in financial markets based ...

Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they receive from the world around them. For instance, some past studies have shown that people progressively ...