summary on this podcast Thank you both for joining me. Lace Padilla, PhD: Thank you for having us. Hannah Perfecto, PhD: Thanks so much. Mills: So I just mentioned about how behavioral science research can help people make better decisions, but the term "better" can be a subjective term. What makes something a bad decision? How do you define "good" versus "bad" in your research? Dr. Padilla, let's start with you. Padilla: I think different groups of people define good and bad decisions differently, and there are some people who might think that a good decision would be the best computational decision. If we had all of the information available, we could calculate the most optimal decision. But the truth is that humans don't function like computers, and from my standpoint in my work, I think of a good decision as someone using all the information available to them to the best of their ability. And in contrast, we can compare that to a bad decision and those are a little bit easier to identify, and I often see bad decisions as clearly someone misinterpreting or misunderstanding information that was presented to them that would ultimately lead to some type