What strategy do you use when making complex decisions? Do you burn the midnight oil to carefully weigh the pros and cons of each alternative? Or do you take your mind off the decision and follow the age-old wisdom of "sleeping on it"?
Q: One way you and colleagues have tried to sort out the mechanisms of conscious or unconscious thought yielding better results in particular decisions has been by running experiments that alter blood glucose levels. Could you tell us more about that?
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