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Decision Making

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Education upgrades mental models. Helping students master the cognitive maps… means these insights will become part of their decision rules in adulthood.

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The sweet spot for decisions… comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.

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That subtle stirring – This feels right – sets our direction even before we can put that decision into words.

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…the emotional gamut – can help a leader make decisions…

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…when we make a compliance decision, it is always a good idea to separate our feelings about the requester from the request.

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It is easy enough to feel properly warned against scarcity pressures, but it is substantially more difficult to act on that warning. Part of the problem is that our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.

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Our best evidence of people’s true feelings and beliefs comes less from their words than from their deeds.

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Observers trying to decide what people are like look closely at their actions. People also use this evidence – their own behavior – to decide what they are like…

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The thing most likely to guide a person’s behavioral decisions isn’t the most potent or instructive aspects of the whole situation; instead, it’s the one that is most prominent in consciousness at the time of decision.

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…when we make a decision about someone or something, we don’t use all of the relevant available information. We use only a single, high representative piece of the total.

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