Editorial: Understanding and Overcoming Biases in Judgment and Decision-Making With Real-Life Consequences.

Abstract

The study of judgment and decision-making is essential to understand human behavior and to inform policy affecting people’s wellbeing in different domains, including health, finance, and the environment. Advances in research on judgment and decision-making over the last decades have helped to document a wide range of cognitive and affective biases that can affect decision-making, uncover the mechanisms underlying such biases, and identify moderating factors. However, a better understanding of the impact of biases on judgments and decisions beyond laboratory settings and ways to prevent negative real-world outcomes is still needed. With the current Research Topic, we aimed to bring together researchers from different fields and traditions to cover recent advances in these areas and bridge gaps between theoretical and applied work. We launched the Research Topic in 2020 as an initiative from the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision-Making Studies (SEJyD), which was founded in Spain in 2014 with the aims of creating a new platform for sharing insights from research in this field, promoting interdisciplinary work, and fostering new international collaborations