Beating the Young Whipper Snappers: Decision Making Does Get Better With Age

Older adults are better at decision-making than young adults

ScienceDaily (2011-08-23) -- We make decisions all our lives -- so you'd think we'd get better and better at it. Yet research has shown that younger adults are better decision-makers than older ones. Some psychologists, puzzled by these findings, suspected the experiments were biased toward younger brains. ... > read full article