Decision-making

Decision making is the mental process that leads to the selection of an action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion.

There is a growing awareness that people often make good decisions rapidly without knowing how they do it.Klein G. 1998. Sources of power: how people make decisions. MIT Press. Gladwell, Malcolm 2005. Blink: the power of thinking without thinking. Little, Brown: New York.  This runs against the older rational decision-making ideas.Facione P. and Facione N. 2007. Thinking and reasoning in human decision making.  

Related pages
Adaptive unconscious
Forecasting
Game theory
Majority rule
Political science
Risk

References

Other websites
 Emotional and Decision Making Lab, Carnegie Mellon, EDM Lab 
 The de Borda Institute - Emerson, P J.  Beyond the Tyranny of the Majority, a comparison of the more common voting procedures used in both decision making and elections.
 Decision Analysis in Health Care  - An online course from George Mason University providing free lectures and tools for decision making in health care.
 DecideBetter! - An online resource to help make better decisions in your everyday lives.

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