Title: Decision-making - Wikipedia
Headings: Decision-making
Decision-making
Contents
Overview
Problem solving vs. decision making
Characteristics of problem solving
Characteristics of decision-making
Analysis paralysis
Extinction by instinct
Extinction by instinct in a group setting
Information overload
Decision fatigue
Post-decision analysis
Neuroscience
Emotions
Decision-making techniques
Group
Individual
Steps
GOFER
DECIDE
Other
Group stages
Rational and irrational
Children, adolescents, and adults
Children
Adolescents
Adults
Cognitive and personal biases
Cognitive limitations in groups
Cognitive styles
Optimizing vs. satisficing
Intuitive vs. rational
Combinatorial vs. positional
Influence of Myers-Briggs type
General decision-making style (GDMS)
Organizational vs. individual level
See also
References

Content: According to Irving L. Janis, groupthink is when members in a group become more involved in the “value of the group (and their being part of it) higher than anything else”; thus, creating a habit of making decisions quickly and unanimously. In other words, a group stuck in groupthink are participating in the phenomenon of extinction by instinct. Information overload
Main article: Information overload
Information overload is "a gap between the volume of information and the tools we have to assimilate" it. Information used in decision making is to reduce or eliminate uncertainty. Excessive information affects problem processing and tasking, which affects decision-making. Psychologist George Armitage Miller suggests that humans’ decision making becomes inhibited because human brains can only hold a limited amount of information. Crystal C. Hall and colleagues described