Trust your intuition! Decisions made quickly are just as good as when we take our time, reveals study
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 29, 2013 20:02When faced with making a difficult life decision, many of us can spend hours agonising over what to do.
But new research has discovered that this is perhaps not the best way to find a solution. Instead, we should trust our intuition and make a quick decision.
Researchers inPortugalfound that decisions made on the spur of the moment are just as good as when we take our time.
They discovered that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to respond.
Dr Mainen, a neuroscientist who led the study while an Associate Professor in theUnited States, said: ‘There are many kinds of decisions, and for some, having more time appears to be of no help.
‘In these cases, you’d better go with your intuition, and that’s what our subjects did.’
He said the study suggests that rats can be used as an animal model to investigate what is happening in the human brain when ‘intuitive’ decisions are being made.
He said more research on the topic is now being conducted at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown inLisbon.
The findings were published in the scientific journal Neuron.
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