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  2. Choice - Wikipedia

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    Choice architecture is the process of encouraging people to make good choices through grouping and ordering the decisions in a way that maximizes successful choices and minimizes the number of people who become so overwhelmed by complexity that they abandon the attempt to choose. Generally, success is improved by presenting the smaller or ...

  3. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    In groups, people generate decisions through active and complex processes. One method consists of three steps: initial preferences are expressed by members; the members of the group then gather and share information concerning those preferences; finally, the members combine their views and make a single choice about how to face the problem.

  4. The Art of Choosing - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday – What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them is a non-fiction book written by Sheena Iyengar, a professor at Columbia Business School known for her research in the field of choice. [1] The book was first published by the imprint Twelve Books of Hachette Book Group in March 2010. [2]

  5. Hobson's choice - Wikipedia

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    A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known Hobson's choice is "I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it", wherein "leaving it" is strongly undesirable.

  6. Overchoice - Wikipedia

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    Choice overload is reversed when people choose for another person. Polman has found that overload is context dependent: choosing from many alternatives by itself is not demotivating. [ 7 ] Polman found that it is not always a case of whether choices differ for the self and others at risk, but rather “according to a selective focus on positive ...

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  8. Agency (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    How humans come to make decisions, by free choice or other processes, is another issue. The capacity of a human to act as an agent is personal to that human, though considerations of the outcomes flowing from particular acts of human agency for us and others can then be thought to invest a moral component into a given situation wherein an agent ...

  9. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Wikipedia

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    Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) is Malcolm Gladwell's second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information.