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de·ci·sion mak·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. decision making, decidingnoun

    the cognitive process of reaching a decision

    "a good executive must be good at decision making"

Wiktionary

  1. decision makingnoun

    The process of reaching a decision.

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  1. decision making

    Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a particular course of action from several alternatives. It involves the evaluation and analysis of different options, often in relation to achieving a specific goal or solving a particular problem. It can be influenced by personal beliefs, preferences, and biases, as well as social, economic, and environmental factors. The aim is to reach the best possible outcome based on the available information.

Wikidata

  1. Decision making

    Decision making can be regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Decision Making

    The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of decision making in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of decision making in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of decision making in a Sentence

  1. RJ Intindola:

    Intuition is like a compass that guides your decision-making process when answers are not readily available.

  2. Mike Schur:

    I don't think that I totally understood the level of which moral decision making can become a factor in your life, where from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep almost everything you do has a moral component, it can drive you nuts. I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing.

  3. Trey Gowdy:

    Peter Strzok's manifest bias trending toward animus casts a pall on this investigation…His bias impacted his decision making and he assigned to himself the role of stopping the Trump campaign or ending a Trump Presidency, this is not the FBI I know.

  4. Jake Sullivan:

    There is never any substitute for leader-to-leader engagement, particularly for complex relationships, but with Putin this is exponentially the case, he has a highly personalized style of decision making and so it is important for President Biden to be able to sit down with President Biden face to face, to be clear about where we are, to understand where President Biden is, to try to manage our differences, and to identify those areas where we can work in America's interests to make progress.

  5. Adam Leventhal:

    There's concern that the adolescent brain may be more vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine, the circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking.


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