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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Could you push the nuclear button?
Description: Imagine nuclear missiles are flying towards the UK and you’re in charge of our response. What do you do? It’s unlikely you’ll have to make this tough a decision – but we all face pressure and choices. How do our brains behave under tension? Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist at the Kellogg School of Management, talks to Ros Taylor about the psychological pitfalls in human decision-making.
“Our brains are still the brains of humans who lived in a savanna with about 200 people around them.”
“We just face too many decisions… you have too many options and too m...