Why quick thinking leads to bad decisions

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 14:41 in Psychology & Sociology

When people make hasty decisions, they tend to make more mistakes. Now, a new study on monkeys explains why: Brain cells become hypersensitive to new information, even bad information, making us likelier to draw faulty conclusions.

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