What's the best way to make a decision?
Life is full of choices, from the mundane (like what to wear today) to the critical (how should we deal with the pandemic?). So how can we make the best decisions? That\u2019s what listener David wants to know.
To investigate, Caroline Steel learns how being smarter doesn\u2019t necessarily make you a good decision maker. She speaks to researchers about the importance of \u2018gut feelings\u2019 \u2013 and how certain people with no intuition whatsoever can struggle to make choices. She also learns why it\u2019s easier to give advice to other people than to follow it yourself, and how we can work together to make the best decisions in a group.
Presenter: Caroline Steel\nProducer: Anand Jagatia
Contributors:\nW\xe4ndy Bruin de Bruin - Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Behavioural Science, University of Southern California, USA\nDavid Robson, science journalist and author \nValerie van Mulukom, Assistant Professor, Coventry University, UK\nLiz Steel\nIgor Grossmann, Associate Professor of psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada\nAnita Williams Woolley associate professor of organisational behaviour and theory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA