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Choice blindness

Week 1 Block 3

Using three examples of research into how people behave when they are offered a clear choice between two options, in this video I present further evidence to suggest that we are not looking into the deep recesses of our mind when we are making decisions – we are making it up as we go along.

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The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology

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