Vic Braden's Unconscious Decision Making

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It comes as no surprise that humans often times overlook the subtle influences played by unconscious reasoning in the process of making decisions. Vic Braden, a former professional tennis player, is able to watch any tennis player serve a ball and knows, even before the ball is hit if the player will double-fault. Despite his years of experience playing the game, he is unable to make sense as to why he is capable of predicting a double fault. The adaptive unconscious is the part of the brain that figures these inferences based on very little information that is provided. As humans, it is compulsory for us to make decisions in everything that we do. In psychology, researchers study snap judgments as a measure for determining the impulsive unconscious