A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to...

Around the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned daily live upside down since social distancing is probably the most effective means of containing the virus until herd immunity is reached. Social norms have been shown to be an important determinant of social distancing behaviors. By conducting...

Behavioral operations management (BOM) is a rapidly growing field. It relaxes the assumption that "human being is rational" in the decision-making process, considers behavioral and cognitive aspects rooted in psychology to develop models for operations, and processes in production and...

Chapter 1. Prologue -- Chapter 2. Trading: Humans Are Heterogeneous Animals -- Chapter 3. Forecasting: Humans Are Prone-To-Predicting Animals -- Chapter 4. Aggregating: Humans Are Social Animals -- Chapter 5. Innovating: Humans Are Ingenious Animals -- Chapter 6. Epilogue.