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Why Do We Step Closer to the Edge?: The Psychology Behind Why Humans Make Bad Decisions
The average adult makes around 35,000 decisions every day, so it should be assumed that we know how to make the right decisions. Yet, we often make the wrong ones. So, are humans doomed to make bad decisions? There are many factors that prove that humans will make bad decisions in their lifetime. This includes cognitive biases and judgments like anchoring bias, neurological systems like systems 1 and 2, which are intuitive and reasoning decision-making systems, damage to the orbitofrontal cortex, which is located in the prefrontal cortex, human conformity, and emotional impacts. All of these factors point to the conclusion that humans are doomed to make bad decisions. But although we are doomed to make bad decisions because of these many factors, we can take initiative in teaching adolescents the proper practices in order to help them make better decisions in the future.
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The average adult makes around 35,000 decisions every day, so it should be assumed that we know how to make the right decisions. Yet, we often make the wrong ones. So, are humans doomed to make bad decisions? There are many factors that prove that humans will make bad decisions in their lifetime. This includes cognitive biases and judgments like anchoring bias, neurological systems like systems 1 and 2, which are intuitive and reasoning decision-making systems, damage to the orbitofrontal cortex, which is located in the prefrontal cortex, human conformity, and emotional impacts. All of these factors point to the conclusion that humans are doomed to make bad decisions. But although we are doomed to make bad decisions because of these many factors, we can take initiative in teaching adolescents the proper practices in order to help them make better decisions in the future.
WATCH HERE
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