When identifying the trends and technologies that could change our future, we find two types of signals. 1. Obscure, very early ones, that you struggle to determine if they're real and what they could ...

Student mental health is suffering. Mental health is being recognized as a key area of concern for young people, including on college campuses. Alarmingly, half of college students identify mental ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about transformative work practices for a changing world. In a physical work environment, ambient information helps us ...

Bad decisions and silly mistakes are part of running a business. They’re impossible to avoid. But we can implement safeguards, and one of the best ways to do this is by applying mental models. I’ve ...

The simple definition of a mental model is a description of how something works. We all have mental models for different types of systems and machines and organizations and even protocols for social ...

Renée J. Mitchell in her newly released book, Twenty-One Mental Models That Can Change Policing: A Framework for Using Data and Research for Overcoming Cognitive Bias, defines mental models as “…a ...

We introduce an extension of the discrete choice model to take into account individuals' mental representation of a choice problem. We argue that, especially in daily activity and travel choices, the ...