First-year undergraduates participated in a short-term longitudinal study of real-life decision making over their first 14 months of college. They were surveyed about 7 different decisions: choosing courses for upcoming terms (on 3 different occasions), choosing an academic major (twice), planning for the upcoming summer, and planning for sophomore-year housing. They also completed a survey of ...

Distributed cognition occurs when cognitive and affective schemas are shared between two or more people during interpersonal discussion. Although extant research focuses on distributed cognition in decision making between health care providers and patients, studies show that caregivers are also highly influential in the treatment decisions of patients. However, there are little empirical data d...

Background: According to recent researches, decision-making style and personality traits play an important role in the drug dependence vulnerability. The aim of current research was to investigate the moderator role of decision-making styles on relationship between personality and drug dependence vulnerability. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and twenty students of Tehran Payame Noor Univer...

In this paper decision-making styles, locus of control, and average grades in exams are examined as correlates procrastination a sample 185 university students (mainly female students) recruited from mandatory courses for degrees psychology pedagogy at the University Catania (Italy). Method: We used Decisional Procrastination Scale (Ferrari, Johnson, & McCown, 1995), consisting five Likert-...

You call a meeting to try to convince your boss that your company needs to make an important move. Your argument is impassioned, your logic unassailable, your data bulletproof. Two weeks later, though, you learn that your brilliant proposal has been tabled. What went wrong? It's likely the proposal wasn't appropriately geared toward your boss's decision-making style, say consultants Gary Willia...

Every individual makes decisions with a different mindset. Emotional-Intelligence is key for every leader working in the prevalent work settings era of technological revolution. Experts have categorized impact emotional intelligence (EI) into Personal (PEI) and Social (SEI). The theoretical model decision-making styles (DMS) includes ‘People-oriented’ ‘Task-oriented’ decision making (PDMS &...