Many would consider emotions to be a hindrance to decision-making and, therefore, think that they would be better off without them. They may avoid or suppress them, rather than feel, process and ...

When you think of building wealth and creating a sustainable financial future, you likely imagine the numbers of your bank account acquiring more commas. To get those commas, you anticipate having to ...

Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the ...

Chandra is an emergency physician and global health policy specialist. Hoover is a former federal worker, sociobehavioral researcher, and global health technical specialist. We both lost our jobs as ...

Making decisions in uncertain situations is part of daily life. New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has uncovered that anxiety and apathy - two common but distinct emotional ...

Finances are typically considered a matter of the mind, not the heart. Whether we're creating a budget, or picking a stock to invest in, we tend to see financial considerations as more logical and ...

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Lisa Rosenbaum is a national correspondent for the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal.

Historically, emotions have been viewed as irrational, unstable or primitive—hardly the stuff of sound decision-making. Enlightenment thinkers like Descartes and Kant privileged reason as the highest ...