Decision Making and Models of Psychopathology

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers

Models of Deferred Decision Making

Deferred decision making (DDM) refers to when an individual collects evidence about two or more risky alternatives and decides when to stop and make a final choice. Real world examples include physicians running tests before diagnosing an illness, or commanders collecting intelligence before taking military action. We conducted a DDM study aimed at investigating how people know when to defer a ...

Models of Affective Decision Making

Intuitively, how you feel about potential outcomes will determine your decisions. Indeed, an implicit assumption in one of the most influential theories in psychology, prospect theory, is that feelings govern choice. Surprisingly, however, very little is known about the rules by which feelings are transformed into decisions. Here, we specified a computational model that used feelings to predict...

Computational models of decision making

This chapter presents a connectionist or artificial neural network approach to decision making. An essential idea of this approach is that decisions are based on the accumulation of the affective evaluations produced by each action until a threshold criterion is reached. This type of sequential sampling process forms the basis for decision making in a wide variety of other cognitive tasks such ...

Normative models of judgment and decision making

The study of judgment and decision making (JDM) is traditionally concerned with the comparison of judgments to standards, standards that allow evaluation of the judgments as better or worse. I use the term “judgments” to include decisions, which are judgments about what to do. The major standards come from probability theory, utility theory, and statistics. These are mathematical theories or “m...