Fear and Decision Making!

Recently,  I stumbled upon an article about  women, fear and decision making. According to a recent study published in PLOS,  these three concepts are related: … fear may affect women’s decisions in choosing immediate rewards versus larger delayed ones, while men’s decisions appear unaffected by emotion, ….  (Science Daily  at [Read More]

By |March 29th, 2024|Odd stuff|

Listening For the Emotions

Have you ever attempted to calm down an emotional person? Our natural inclination is to deny the emotional content of what the speaker is saying by using logic and/or facts such as, "There is no reason to get upset", "Calm down", "You are over-reacting", "You have misunderstood", "Maybe it is [Read More]

What ARE we afraid of?

This month I am giving a series of presentations before different groups with my colleagues Gemma George, Ph.D. and John W. Garman, LL.M., FCIArb on the "Ethical Duties of Eiminating Bias in the Legal Profession." We are popular this month because by February 1, 2014, the last third of the [Read More]

By |January 24th, 2014|Bias|
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