Tag: decisions

  • How Trust Affects Creative Collaboration

    How Trust Affects Creative Collaboration

    Control freaks and psychological safety — We brought Eric Olive on the podcast as a guest to talk about the science of decisions and we ended up talking about control and safety. How do you create an environment of psychological safety? And how does that encourage creative collaboration? Eric has also offered a list of…

  • iPhone X? Yes or No? It Might Come Down To Which Part Of Your Brain Is Active.

    iPhone X? Yes or No? It Might Come Down To Which Part Of Your Brain Is Active.

    This week Apple announced the iPhone X. Some of you have decided you are definitely NOT going to buy it, others have decided you definitely are, and others are on the fence. Whether you go for it or not at least partially depends on whether you are making a habit-based decision or a value based…

  • The Science Of Decisions

    The Science Of Decisions

    How we really make our decisions may surprise you. In this HumanTech podcast we explore the newest research on decision-making. HumanTech is a podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr. Susan Weinschenk explore how behavioral and brain science affects our technologies and how technologies affect our brains.…

  • 5 Reasons We Make Poor Decisions

    5 Reasons We Make Poor Decisions

    I just read a great report from Eric Olive on how and why we make decisions, especially bad ones. Here’s a summary of the report and the trouble we can get ourselves into: Most of our decision-making happens unconsciously, so it’s difficult to prevent these errors. Eric says your best strategy is to put some procedures…

  • 100 Things You Should Know About People: #10 — You Want More Choices and Information Than You Can Actually Process

    100 Things You Should Know About People: #10 — You Want More Choices and Information Than You Can Actually Process

    If you stand in any aisle in any retail store in the USA you will be inundated with choices. Whether you are buying candy, cereal, TVs, jeans, you name it, you will likely have a huge number of items to choose from. This is because people want lots of choices. If you ask someone whether…

  • 100 Things You Should Know about People: #5 — You Make Most of Your Decisions Unconsciously

    100 Things You Should Know about People: #5 — You Make Most of Your Decisions Unconsciously

    You are thinking of buying a TV. You do some research on what TV to buy and then you go online to purchase one. What factors are involved in this decision making process? It’s not what you think — I cover this topic in my book Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? You like…