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, who explained what's actually happening in our brains when we make these decisions. She notes that “humans make thousands of decisions every day and as a way to make these decisions more efficient, we’ve evolved a set of cognitive biases, which we often think of as ‘mental shortcuts’.”
“'Instinct' or ‘intuition’-based decisions [such as saving a drowning child] are examples of a type of bias we at NLI classify as an ‘expedience bias’. This compels us to make decisions quickly using the information most readily available, and stems from a 2-system model of thought processing, called the Fast and Slow system.
"It makes sense then, that by giving yourself an extra five seconds to consider a decision [thus using the 5-second rule] you are engaging the vlPFC, slowing down the process but making it more deliberate and logical.
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