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 ...

Day one of the healthcare strategy course I teach in the Stanford Graduate School of Business begins with this question: “Who here receives excellent medical care?” Most of the students raise their ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the amount of time adolescents spend playing video games does not inherently predict cognitive harm ...

A new study suggests that advanced artificial intelligence models, increasingly used in medicine, can exhibit human-like errors in reasoning when making clinical recommendations. The research found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...