University of Chicago Booth School of Business Free Exhibition

The exhibition may not be large, but it can truly help you rediscover yourself. 🌟 It begins with the theme of "regret." 📝 You're asked to write down "something you regret doing" and "something you regret not doing." Research shows that people tend to regret more the things they didn't do in the long run. Perhaps it's because the regret of not trying something can easily amplify over time. 😔 Choice Architecture | What Shapes Your Decisions? The exhibition introduces five key factors that influence decision-making: Fun, Easy, Attention, Social, and Timely. 🔍 It turns out that so many choices we think are made out of free will are actually pre-designed. 🤯 Design Your Best Life: Piece Together Your Ideal Life Choose answers to three questions to form your life puzzle: 1️⃣ What goal do you want to set? 2️⃣ What's holding you back from achieving it? 3️⃣ What's the first step you can take now? 🧩 I really want to improve my health, but there are so many distractions. I need to focus and block out the noise. The moment I put my puzzle on the wall, it felt like I suddenly knew what to do next. 🎉 Optical Illusions An entire wall displays "upside-down" portraits that look normal until they're flipped right-side up—then you see that the eyes are slanted downward, and Einstein looks down on me with disdain! Our brains' habitual perceptions sometimes automatically correct errors, making us miss the flaws. 🧠 📈 Risk and Decision-Making Next is an interesting behavioral economics segment where you make choices based on preset scenarios: You have a charity raffle ticket that's won $1,000, but you must choose two out of the following four options: 1️⃣ Win $250 for sure 2️⃣ Lose $750 for sure 3️⃣ 25% chance to win $1,000, 75% chance to win nothing 4️⃣ 25% chance to lose $0, 75% chance to lose $1,000 What would you choose? 🤔 This simple game reveals a profound shift in people's thinking when facing "gains" and "losses." Many people make completely opposite choices within a "gain-loss framework"—this is called the framing effect. 📈 🧐 Do You Really Know Your Friends? Sit down with your companion to take a little test: First, write down "how well you think you know them," then compare it with the actual match based on a series of specific questions. The results show that what you think you know might just be a subjective assumption. 😮 🐈‍⬛ First Impressions: Can You Judge Without Prejudice? The last section is about faces and biases. The first face you see often triggers the labeling system in your brain—no matter how consciously you tell yourself "don't judge a book by its cover," your brain has already reacted. Cognitive biases hide in our most unconscious glances. 🕵️‍♂️ #Chicago #HiddenGems #LifeInNorthAmerica