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Posted by Psych Striker
In my previous blog post , I wrote about the adaptive toolbox of a decision-making mind, namely heuristics . This post focuses on the other side of the concept.
To encapsulate, heuristics are mental rules of thumb that allow us to make decisions quickly and with significantly less effort by using only part of the information. While quick and easy, some researchers believe that the use of heuristics leads to systematic biases in the human decision-making process.