{"id":209,"date":"2006-02-25T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T02:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=209"},"modified":"2019-12-28T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T15:01:02","slug":"when-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/when-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"When in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/02\/17\/thought_for_thinkers\/?page=full\">Think about something else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a series of studies with shoppers and students, researchers found that people who face a decision with many considerations, such as what house to buy, often do not choose wisely if they spend a lot of time consciously weighing the pros and cons. Instead, the scientists conclude, the best strategy is to gather all of the relevant information &#8212; such as the price, the number of bathrooms, the age of the roof &#8212; and then put the decision out of mind for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when the time comes to decide, go with what feels right. &#8221;It is much better to follow your gut,&#8221; said Ap Dijksterhuis, a professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam, who led the research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more in the article, written by Gareth Cook for the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, by following the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about something else. In a series of studies with shoppers and students, researchers found that people who face a decision with many considerations, such as what house to buy, often do not choose wisely if they spend a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/when-in-doubt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[717,708,718,716,715],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-pop-culture","tag-ap-dijksterhuis","tag-cognition","tag-gareth-cook","tag-intuition-and-decision-making","tag-making-decisions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}