Decision-making

In psychology, decision-making also spelled decision creating and decisionmaking is regarded as a cognitive process resulting in the pick of a concepts or the course of action among several possible choice options. It could be either rational or irrational. The decision-making process is a reasoning process based on assumptions of values, preferences & beliefs of the decision-maker. Every decision-making process produces achoice, which may or may not prompt action.

Research about decision-making is also published under the names problem solving, especially in European psychological research.

Cognitive limitations in groups

In groups, people generate decisions through active & complex processes. One method consists of three steps: initial preferences are expressed by members; the members of the group thenand share information concerning those preferences; finally, the members combine their views and develope a single choice about how to face the problem. Although these steps are relatively ordinary, judgements are often distorted by cognitive and motivational biases, put "sins of commission", "sins of omission", and "sins of imprecision".[]