Review
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Ettore Cerracchio, Steven Miletic, Birte U. Forstmann
Summary: This article discusses the role of decision-making biases in the decision-making process and compares studies that used different models to investigate these biases. The results indicate that evidence accumulation models provide a more comprehensive explanation of decision-making phenomena by including response time behavior.
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Laura J. Faherty, Gerald P. Hunter, Pierrce Holmes, Jeanne S. Ringel
Summary: This survey study investigates the usage of incentives for COVID-19 vaccination and explores how different sociodemographic factors are associated with individuals' opinions on the impact of incentives on trust in the COVID-19 vaccine.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Vincent Berthet
Summary: The author reviewed research on the impact of cognitive biases on decision-making in management, finance, medicine, and law. The findings indicate that cognitive biases have an impact on professionals' decisions in these four areas, with overconfidence being the most common bias. The level of evidence supporting this claim varies across the different fields.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Taylor W. Webb, Kiyofumi Miyoshi, Tsz Yan So, Sivananda Rajananda, Hakwan Lau
Summary: Previous work has debated whether predictions of decision confidence are optimal and rely on the same decision variable as decisions themselves. This study used deep neural networks to develop a model of decision confidence that operates on high-dimensional stimuli. The model explains dissociations between decisions and confidence, provides a rational explanation based on the statistics of sensory inputs, and predicts a common decision variable.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Stephane Mouchabac, Ismael Conejero, Camille Lakhlifi, Ilyass Msellek, Leo Malandain, Vladimir Adrien, Florian Ferreri, Bruno Millet, Olivier Bonnot, Alexis Bourla, Redwan Maatoug
Summary: High stake clinical choices in psychiatry can be influenced by external factors, and a strong understanding of cognitive and behavioral mechanisms is crucial for improving healthcare quality. Cognitive biases from both patients and clinicians can impact decision-making procedures and implementing digital phenotyping may help mitigate these biases.
DIALOGUES IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
International Relations
Joshua D. Kertzer, Marcus Holmes, Brad L. LeVeck, Carly Wayne
Summary: This article examines how cognitive biases relevant to foreign policy decision making aggregate in groups. The results of three large-scale group experiments reveal that groups are as susceptible to biases as individuals, with decision-making structures neither attenuating the biases nor diverse groups performing differently than homogeneous ones. These findings have important implications for understanding foreign policy decision making, the role of group processes, and the behavioral revolution in international relations.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Andre Luiz Q. Reis, Ricardo M. Stenders, Isabela S. Alves, Renan A. Camara, Alba R. A. Arana, Jose Carlos C. Amorim, Edson R. Andrade
Summary: This study explores the mathematical correlation between indexes characterizing a territory's susceptibility to flooding and the potential damage caused to the public, while also considering the cognitive influence of decision-makers on risk perception. The results offer a new perspective for natural disaster management assessment by estimating the impact of decision-makers' intellectual selfperception on outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Review
Business
Chiara Acciarini, Federica Brunetta, Paolo Boccardelli
Summary: This paper investigates the potential interrelations among environmental transformations, cognitive biases, and strategic decisions, emphasizing the importance of cognitive biases on strategic decisions during times of environmental transformation. Decision-making is influenced by both internal (e.g. perception) and external factors (e.g. digitalization), and decision-makers are urged to manage cognitive biases to adapt to changing environments.
MANAGEMENT DECISION
(2021)
Review
Nursing
M. Lorraine Thirsk, T. Julia Panchuk, Sarah Stahlke, Reidar Hagtvedt
Summary: The biases in nurses' judgment and decision-making need to be addressed, and it is essential to identify and test debiasing strategies in real-world nursing settings.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
(2022)
Review
Critical Care Medicine
Iris E. Beldhuis, Ramesh S. Marapin, You Yuan Jiang, Nadia F. Simoes de Souza, Artemis Georgiou, Thomas Kaufmann, Jose Castela Forte, Iwan C. C. van der Horst
Summary: The study found that cognitive biases and factors can influence decision-making in critical care, including biases such as omission, status quo, implicit, explicit, outcome, and overconfidence bias, as well as personal, environmental, and patient factors. The current evidence suggests that these biases and factors play a role in clinical decision-making, and future studies should investigate their prevalence and impact on clinical outcomes in practice.
JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE
(2021)
Article
Business
Vidya S. Athota, Vijay Pereira, Zahid Hasan, Daicy Vaz, Benjamin Laker, Dimitrios Reppas
Summary: This study investigates cognitive biases among financial planners and explores how Artificial Intelligence can help overcome these biases. The findings suggest that financial planners exhibit cognitive biases while providing services and digital transformation using AI technologies may assist in addressing these biases, but should be combined with human intelligence.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Vincent Berthet
Summary: The study suggests that individual differences in decision-making research on heuristics and cognitive biases have been overlooked, and reliable measures are needed. While there are currently reliable measures for some cognitive biases, improvements are needed for others, such as confirmation bias. Empirical work showed that adjustments can significantly improve some measures and confirmation bias can be reliably measured. Overall, the study highlights that measurement of individual differences in cognitive biases is still in its early stages, with a particular need for improved or developed contextualized measures.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Yuli L. Leon, Enrique Mu
Summary: This study aims to explore the positive effect of organizational mindfulness on the rationality of the decision-making process, and propose a framework to assess its presence in organizations. The empirical study showed a significant positive effect of organizational mindfulness dimensions on decision-making rationality, highlighting the importance of assessing the extent of organizational mindfulness presence in organizations.
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Linn Bieske, Maximillian Zinner, Florian Dahlhausen, Hubert Truebel
Summary: This article reviews trends, challenges, and approaches to pharmaceutical portfolio management and focuses on cognitive biases in decision-making. Portfolio managers heavily rely on external innovation and face increasing competitive pressure and complexity. Addressing biases and making robust decisions remain a challenge.
DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Himaja Kesavareddigari, Atilla Eryilmaz
Summary: The study explores an information network with rational information consumers and biased information providers, finding that graph-blind rational information consumers prefer fully biased information providers who are against the a-priori likely input to minimize error probabilities.
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Thomas Lesaffre, Sylvain Billiard
Summary: This study investigates the higher levels of inbreeding depression in perennials compared to annuals in angiosperms. By combining a physiological growth model and multilocus population genetics approaches, the researchers explore the impact of mutations affecting growth or survival on inbreeding depression and mutation load. The study suggests that traits under strong selection, decreasing sharply with increasing life expectancy, may be responsible for generating high inbreeding depression in long-lived species.
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Coralie Fritsch, Sylvain Billiard, Nicolas Champagnat
Summary: Body size or mass plays a crucial role in shaping food web structure, and the consideration of biomass conversion efficiency dependent on species size is essential for the adaptive evolution of food webs. The study questions the robustness of evolutionary models for the study of food webs and emphasizes the importance of paying attention to how biomass flows into food webs in models.
Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Thomas Cousins, Michelle Pentecost, Alexandra Alvergne, Clare Chandler, Simukai Chigudu, Clare Herrick, Ann Kelly, Sabina Leonelli, Javier Lezaun, Jamie Lorimer, David Reubi, Sharifah Sekalala
Article
Biology
Sylvain Billiard, Vincent Castric, Violaine Llaurens
Summary: This study explores the evolution of dominance inheritance, suggesting that the opposing views of Fisher and Wright can be reconciled through models of gene expression and developmental regulation. The article also provides detailed insights from recent empirical studies, revealing the diverse molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying dominance and its evolution. By bridging population genetics and functional biology, the review aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the study of dominance evolution.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Isabelle De Cauwer, Philippe Vernet, Sylvain Billiard, Cecile Gode, Angelique Bourceaux, Chloe Ponitzki, Pierre Saumitou-Laprade
Summary: The breakdown of self-incompatibility is a common evolutionary transition in angiosperms, but stable within-population polymorphism with both inbreeding and outcrossing individuals is rarely observed in natural populations. The study on Ligustrum vulgare L. confirmed the existence of two self-incompatibility groups and the presence of self-compatible individuals in different populations of Western Europe due to a mutation affecting the functioning of the pollen component of SI. The low frequency of self-compatible individuals in natural populations is only compatible with theoretical predictions if inbreeding depression is very high.
Article
Demography
Rose Stevens, Blandine Malbos, Eshetu Gurmu, Jeremie Riou, Alexandra Alvergne
Summary: This study investigates the importance of women's physiological condition and sociocultural factors in predicting the risk of discontinuation of injectable contraceptives due to side effects in Ethiopia. The results suggest that anemia status is associated with discontinuation due to side effects, while religion, wealth, and relationship status are associated with discontinuation due to other reasons.
STUDIES IN FAMILY PLANNING
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Peter Czuppon, Sylvain Billiard
Summary: This paper addresses the modeling of allele diversity in gametophytic self-incompatibility. The deterministic dynamics and stationary allele frequency distribution are derived, with results aligning with earlier findings. The study also approximates the invasion probability of new alleles and estimates the population size of a plant population based on allele frequencies.
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Marina Voinson, Charline Smadi, Sylvain Billiard
Summary: This study examines the impact of host community structure on epidemics and finds that intermediate hosts can reduce the prevalence of infection, while infections from different sources tend to amplify the epidemic effect. These findings have important implications for the control of emerging infectious diseases.
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Alexandra Alvergne
TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Austin Argentieri, Gabriella Kountourides, M. Austin Argentieri, Lisa Agyen, Natalie Rogers, Dawn Knight, Gemma C. Sharp, Jacqueline A. Maybin, Zuzanna Olszewsla
Summary: There has been concern over the potential impact of COVID-19 vaccination on menstrual cycles compared to actual COVID-19 infection. A survey conducted in the UK found that 18% of pre-menopausal vaccinated individuals experienced changes in their menstrual cycles after the first vaccine dose. Smoking, history of COVID-19 infection, and non-use of contraceptives containing estradiol were identified as potential risk factors for reporting menstrual changes.
Article
Ecology
Roman Stetsenko, Thomas Brom, Vincent Castric, Sylvain Billiard
Summary: In this article, numerical simulations were used to investigate the effects of population subdivision on the diversification of self-incompatibility haplotypes in flowering plants. The results showed that population structure slightly reduces the parameter range allowing for haplotype diversification, but it also increases the overall diversity of these haplotypes in the metapopulation. The study suggests that population subdivision can facilitate haplotype diversification, but also increases the risk of losing the self-incompatibility system.
Review
Anthropology
Alexandra Alvergne, Rose Stevens
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of considering both adoption and discontinuation of contraceptive behavior in understanding fertility dynamics. By integrating behavioral ecology and cultural evolution frameworks, as well as examining the individual impact of contraceptive behavior, a more comprehensive understanding of evolutionary trends in fertility regulation can be achieved.
EVOLUTIONARY HUMAN SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Clotilde Lepers, Sylvain Billiard, Matthieu Porte, Sylvie Meleard, Viet Chi Tran
Summary: This paper presents a new inferential procedure based on a stochastic birth-death model for analyzing ecological, demographic, and genetic parameters. The effectiveness of the inferential procedure is validated through analyses of simulated and real data, showing that different social organizations may exhibit significantly different fertilities.
Article
Philosophy
Koen Tanghe, Sylvain Billiard
Summary: The evolution of the cosmos can be divided into cosmological, biological, and cultural phases, with similarities in their underlying dynamics. This common grammar can serve as a heuristic template and aid in understanding the future evolution of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines.
PHILOSOPHY AND COSMOLOGY-FILOSOFIYA I KOSMOLOGIYA
(2022)
