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A closer look at the consuming gaze

A closer look at the consuming gaze | Science News | Scoop.it

Using eye-tracking devices, Bodur and his colleauges investigated how location influences choices for products as varied as vitamins, meal replacement bars, and energy drinks. They found that consumers would increase their visual focus on the central option in a product display area in the final five seconds of the decision-making process – and that was the point at which they determined which option to choose. It turns out that the process is a subconscious one. When asked how they had come to decide on what product to buy, consumers did not accurately recall their choice process. What’s more, they were not aware of any conscious visual focus on one area of the display over another.

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Visual perception system unconsciously affects our preferences

Visual perception system unconsciously affects our preferences | Science News | Scoop.it
New research shows that the brain's visual perception system automatically and unconsciously guides decision-making through valence perception.
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Do people have free will?

Do people have free will? | Science News | Scoop.it
The experience of free will is more basic than any other. Everyone naturally feels he or she is the author of his or her choices and character.


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Genes may play a role in your investment choices

Genes may play a role in your investment choices | Science News | Scoop.it

Whether you’re a safe, conservative investor or a fast-trading stock-swapper, genes may actually play a role in some of your decisions. Individuals frequently exhibit investment biases, such as not diversifying enough, being reluctant to sell stocks that have lost money or simply trading too much. Now, new research from Stephan Siegel, visiting professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, shows some investors may be born with those biases.

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Economics and the Brain: How People Really Make Decisions in Turbulent Times

Economics and the Brain: How People Really Make Decisions in Turbulent Times | Science News | Scoop.it
Economics and the brain: how people really make decisions in turbulent times.

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'Explorers,' who embrace the uncertainty of choices, use specific part of cortex

'Explorers,' who embrace the uncertainty of choices, use specific part of cortex | Science News | Scoop.it
Life shrouds most choices in mystery. Some people inch toward a comfortable enough spot and stick close to that rewarding status quo. Out to dinner, they order the usual. Others consider their options systematically or randomly.

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Eau de DNA: Do Genes Determine Our Perfume Preference?

Eau de DNA:  Do Genes Determine Our Perfume Preference? | Science News | Scoop.it
A perfume that one person loves may be repulsive to another. The difference is in our genes, a new study suggests.
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Prejudice Comes From a Basic Human Need and Way of Thinking

People who are prejudiced feel a much stronger need to make quick and firm judgments and decisions in order to reduce ambiguity. “Of course, everyone has to make decisions, but some people really hate uncertainty and therefore quickly rely on the most obvious information, often the first information they come across, to reduce it” Roets says. That’s also why they favor authorities and social norms which make it easier to make decisions. Then, once they’ve made up their mind, they stick to it. “If you provide information that contradicts their decision, they just ignore it.”

Lim Jun Heng's curator insight, June 29, 2013 10:15 AM

I can see from this article that there is no way to change the fundamental way of the human mind. I think that humans should try their best to not categories others into groups , even if they do they should not be so quick to judge , as the saying goes “do not judge a book by its cover” and instead inquire and observe more before making negative justification towards that group . This is most likely the cause of racism, where because of one person; the whole race is despised and thought ill off, when the rest are fine and easy to get along with. I wonder when will humans ever bond as one and no longer be biased towards anything. 

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How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality

How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality | Science News | Scoop.it

A paper published in Nature Communications by a team of researchers from Canada and Switzerland explores the concept of coin flipping in the context of quantum physics that uses light particles, so-called photons, to allow communication tasks in a manner that outperforms standard communication schemes.

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'Obesity genes' may influence food choices, eating patterns

'Obesity genes' may influence food choices, eating patterns | Science News | Scoop.it
Blame it on your genes? Researchers say individuals with variations in certain "obesity genes" tend to eat more meals and snacks, consume more calories per day and choose the same high fat, sugary foods.
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People prefer the middle option

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When objects are arranged in an array from left to right, the central item jumps up and down and calls out to you "Pick me, pick me!" Well, not literally, but in a new study psychologists have provided further evidence for what's called the "Centre Stage effect" - our preferential bias towards items located in the middle.

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The power of perceptions: Imagining the reality you want

The power of perceptions: Imagining the reality you want | Science News | Scoop.it

"A human being is a deciding being," Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 book, "Man's Search for Meaning," which sold more than 10 million copies. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."


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Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see

Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see | Science News | Scoop.it
If you are looking for a particular object — say a yellow pencil — on a cluttered desk, how does your brain work to visually locate it?
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Right choice, but not the intuitive one

Right choice, but not the intuitive one | Science News | Scoop.it
To take a gratifying, low-paying job or a well-paid corporate position, to get married or play the field, to move across the country or stay put: The fact that most people face such choices at some point in their lives doesn’t make them any easier.
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The Situation of Choice

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The problem is — and everything from fluctuations in the stock market to decisions between saving for retirement or purchasing a lottery ticket or a shirt on the sale rack shows it — people just aren’t rational. They systematically make choices that go against what an economist would predict or advocate.Enter a pair of psychological scientists — Daniel Kahneman (currently a professor emeritus at Princeton) and Amos Tversky — who in the 1970s turned the economists’ rational theories on their heads. Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases and their Nobel Prize winning contribution, prospect theory, poured real, irrational, only-human behavior into the calculations, enabling much more powerful prediction of how individuals really choose between risky options.

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The Mechanics of Choice

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Hardly a minute goes by in our lives when we don’t make them. Decisions can be as small as our choices of words or what to have for lunch, and they can be as big as how to plan for retirement or what treatment to choose for a disease. They can balance certainties against risks. They can balance short-term gratification against long-term benefits. They can clearly be right or wrong — but often enough, they involve likelihoods and possibilities that are uncertain, even in the light of all available information.

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Does having more potential mates make us focus on deep qualities or shallow ones? - Association for Psychological Science

A study published in Psychological Science found that volunteers who have the choice of many potential mates pay less attention to important characteristics that take more time to elicit and pay more attention to trivial characteristics that are quickly and easily assessed.

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How we (should) decide: Philosopher aims to develop theories of practical rationality

How we (should) decide: Philosopher aims to develop theories of practical rationality | Science News | Scoop.it
Caspar Hare is interested in your choices. Not the ones you’ve already made, but the ones you will make, and how you’ll go about making them. The more important, the better.
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