The Low-Energy Mental Shortcuts, or Heuristics, That the Human Brain

question 136

True/False

The low-energy mental shortcuts, or heuristics, that the human brain commonly employs is one major reason for the systematic errors in decision making that people make, which is the focus of behavioral economics.

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