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By Carl Martin Allwood, Marcus Selart (auth.), Carl Martin Allwood, Marcus Selart (eds.)

Decision making is a fancy phenomenon which in most cases is deeply built-in into social lifestyles. while the choice making approach frequently offers the choice maker a chance for awake making plans and for taking a reflective stance with admire to the motion thought of. this implies that call making permits artistic suggestions with a possible to alter the process occasions either on anyone and a collective point. Given those issues, we argue that during order to extra totally comprehend choice making the views of alternative disciplines are wanted. during this quantity we've tried to attract jointly contributions that might offer a extensive view of determination making. a lot paintings has been conducted within the writing and enhancing of this quantity. firstly we want to thank the members for his or her efforts in generating fascinating and critical texts and for his or her persistence within the editorial method. every one bankruptcy used to be edited through or 3 reviewers. those reviewers are indexed on a separate web page during this publication. Our heartfelt thank you visit them for his or her time and for his or her incisive and positive reports! we're additionally thankful to the publishing editors at Kluwer educational Publishers, Christiane Roll and Dorien Francissen, who've been beneficiant with their encouragement and endurance through the editorial process.

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It appeared that recipients of majority influence mainly employed the backward sequencing strategy, but recipients of minority influence also used other strategies, such as forward , backward and mixed sequencing of letters. Understandably, recipients of minority influence found more correct solutions than recipients of majority influence. According to Nemeth's ( 1986) reformulation , recipients of minority influence are better decision makers in that they show greater creativity (divergence). They are involved in thinking that goes beyond the message received.

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One procedure for creative decision making may involve using intuition and insight before logic and analysis. The first step is to evaluate decision options intuitively without much reliance on expert knowledge and traditional thought and then proceed with rational analysis of alternatives and logical implications of each option. Acwrding to Kuhn and Kuhn ( 1991 ), intuition and logic are best used together in a recursive process. Social decision making often requires non-compensatory strategies , meaning that a good value on one attribute cannot compensate for a bad value on another.

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