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  2. Intuition and decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Intuition in the context of decision-making is defined as a "non-sequential information-processing mode." [1] It is distinct from insight (a much more protracted process) and can be contrasted with the deliberative style of decision-making.

  3. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    In the general decision-making style (GDMS) test developed by Suzanne Scott and Reginald Bruce, there are five decision-making styles: rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, and spontaneous. [88] [89] These five different decision-making styles change depending on the context and situation, and one style is not necessarily better than any ...

  4. Decision theory - Wikipedia

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    The mythological Judgement of Paris required selecting from three incomparable alternatives (the goddesses shown).. Decision theory or the theory of rational choice is a branch of probability, economics, and analytic philosophy that uses the tools of expected utility and probability to model how individuals would behave rationally under uncertainty.

  5. Social heuristics - Wikipedia

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    Meta-analytic evidence based on 67 studies that looked at cooperation in the types of economic games described above suggests that cognitive-processing manipulations that encourage intuitive decision-making (such as time pressure or increased cognitive load) increase pure cooperation, where a one-shot action has no future consequences for the ...

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of the quality of the decision at the time it was made. Pessimism bias: The tendency for some people, especially those with depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them. (compare optimism bias) Present bias

  7. Managerial economics - Wikipedia

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    Intuitive decision-making relies on consumer heuristics, defined as cognitive processes of fast decision-making, which occur by limiting the amount of information analysed. [40] Economic concepts such as competitive advantage, market segmentation, and price discrimination are relevant to pricing strategy. [30]

  8. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    According to Alos-Ferrer and Strack the dual-process theory has relevance in economic decision-making through the multiple-selves model, in which one person's self-concept is composed of multiple selves depending on the context. An example of this is someone who as a student is hard working and intelligent, but as a sibling is caring and ...

  9. Social choice theory - Wikipedia

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    Social choice theory is a branch of welfare economics that extends the theory of rational choice to collective decision-making. [1] Social choice studies the behavior of different mathematical procedures (social welfare functions) used to combine individual preferences into a coherent whole.