"Christmas is my mental cut-off but more important is to get the right person.
This was going to be The Red Wedding of Celebrity Jeopardy!, mental cuts from all sides as O'Leary whispered in his opponents' ears: "An O'Leary always pays his debts, starting with the one with the highest interest rate".
The Miami-Dade plan, which included training thousands of police officers on how to deal with people who have mental illness, cut the local jail population nearly in half and allowed the county to close one of its facilities.
The proportion of persons with good mental health (cut off = 3) altered significantly (p <.001) from 35.3% at T1 to 52.1% at T2 and 61% at T3.
Judging probability based on the essential features of a parent population is a heuristic, a mental short cut, which in all likelihood will be inaccurate and lead to false faith in some cases, and missed opportunities in other cases [ 35].
Throughout the spring, the legislature, especially the Senate, showed resistance to the governor's proposed mental health cuts.
Instead, their choices depend on a long list of mental short cuts and intemperate emotions, which often lead them to pick the wrong options.
The Guardian's This is the NHS series has commendably highlighted the crisis in mental health (Cuts blamed as mental health death toll soars, 26 January) alongside innovative approaches being taken by the NHS and charities to tackle it – especially in prevention and early intervention (Spotting the warning signs, 26 January).
Psychologists call this idea that humans have a tendency to take mental short cuts when making decisions or assessments the "cognitive miser" theory.
In a kind of mental short-cut, a group of brain cells in the premotor cortex are thought to encode the observed action so that our bodies can be immediately commanded to perform it.
Mental illness cuts across a wide swath of society.
