Decision making.
AHAHAHAHA.
Okay, that was a nice start.
Right now, I need to make a lot of decisions that aren't that easy for me because they involve important and/or expensive factors.
Some weeks ago I read a site note in some book that mentioned a study on stroke patients who lost their emotions. And because of experiencing little emotions, they suddenly lost the ability to come to decisions, even so easy ones as what they wanted to eat for breakfast. The scientists deducted that emotions play a key factor in how unconscious decisions are made (and those are the vast majority of decisions in our lives). (Details might be wrong)
So seeing how I'm faced with UGH!indecisiveness once again, I got curious about what's known or theorized about decision-making.
"In their most recent research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Paller and Voss reveal a surprising discovery. Participants in that study were purposefully distracted while trying to quickly memorize visual patterns with their implicit memory and, quite surprisingly, did better when distracted than when they weren't."
Said article begun with athletes and the way they have to render information in split-seconds.
And I remembered some people who claim they can't play darts, just to throw their dart, hit bull's eye and be very perplexed afterwards. (Ergo AHAHAHAHA.)
Another article I found was about a study that showed it's likely that having to make decisions or regulate yourself/show constraint exhausts a single resource of executive functions, and when that resource is exhausted, your ability for new decisions or constraint is exhausted as well, so your decisions become 'weak' and you become more susceptible to suggestions and bad choices.
Sleeping over a difficult decision might be quite a good idea. ^_^;
"For instance, it’s been recognized for several decades the people are more sensitive to losses than to gains, a phenomenon known as loss aversion. This doesn't fit with economic theory, but it appears to be hard-wired into the brain.
Or: Why negative motivation does work. xD;
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Okay, that was a nice start.
Right now, I need to make a lot of decisions that aren't that easy for me because they involve important and/or expensive factors.
Some weeks ago I read a site note in some book that mentioned a study on stroke patients who lost their emotions. And because of experiencing little emotions, they suddenly lost the ability to come to decisions, even so easy ones as what they wanted to eat for breakfast. The scientists deducted that emotions play a key factor in how unconscious decisions are made (and those are the vast majority of decisions in our lives). (Details might be wrong)
So seeing how I'm faced with UGH!indecisiveness once again, I got curious about what's known or theorized about decision-making.
"In their most recent research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Paller and Voss reveal a surprising discovery. Participants in that study were purposefully distracted while trying to quickly memorize visual patterns with their implicit memory and, quite surprisingly, did better when distracted than when they weren't."
Said article begun with athletes and the way they have to render information in split-seconds.
And I remembered some people who claim they can't play darts, just to throw their dart, hit bull's eye and be very perplexed afterwards. (Ergo AHAHAHAHA.)
Another article I found was about a study that showed it's likely that having to make decisions or regulate yourself/show constraint exhausts a single resource of executive functions, and when that resource is exhausted, your ability for new decisions or constraint is exhausted as well, so your decisions become 'weak' and you become more susceptible to suggestions and bad choices.
Sleeping over a difficult decision might be quite a good idea. ^_^;
"For instance, it’s been recognized for several decades the people are more sensitive to losses than to gains, a phenomenon known as loss aversion. This doesn't fit with economic theory, but it appears to be hard-wired into the brain.
Or: Why negative motivation does work. xD;
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