Throughout our lives, we often encounter perplexing situations involving other individuals or read in the news about someone's seemingly irrational decision and say to ourselves: What were they thinking? In this Stanford+Connects video, Bill Newsome, PhD, director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and his wife Brie Linkenhoker, PhD, a neuroscientists-turned-strategist who directs Worldview Stanford, examine the process of decision making and the role of impulses and self-control. Watch the full talk to learn more about the mechanisms driving us to make decisions.
Previously: Exploring the science of decision making and Exploring the intelligence-gathering and decision-making processes of infants
