How to Make Better Decisions and
Avoid Decision Making Traps

(Tips, Techniques, Theories, and Insights)

Articles

	Sharpen Your Snap Judgments - Ways to help you filter through first impressions and improve rapid decision making.
	Better Results From Wrong Decisions: Decision making under conditions of uncertainty.
	How the mind works (from deciding to action) and how people avoid making serious decisions.
	How Bad Decisions Can Lead to Billion-Dollar Mistakes.
	Does Social Media Produce Group think?
	Making Better Choices & Getting Unstuck.
	Ten (10) reasons why people make stupid decisions.
	Various approaches to Ethical Decision Making.
	Consensus Decision Making.
	Encouraging Dissent in Decision Making.
	Speed and Tempo. Fearless Decision Making for Startups.
	Mindless Collectives Better at Rational Decision-Making than Brainy Individuals.
	Lots of Theories about how we make decisions including cognitive dissonance, confirmation and information bias, sunk cost effect, and bounded rationality.
	Barriers In Decision Making.
	High level overview of 8 types of faulty thinking (traps) and possible antidotes for each.
	Harvard Business Review Article on the Hidden Traps in Decision Making. In making decisions, you may be at the mercy of your mind's strange workings. Here's how to catch thinking traps before they become judgement disasters.
	How to avoid the hidden traps of individual and group decision making to improve in your own decisions and effectiveness of your team.
	Decision-making is Still a Work in Progress for Teenagers.
	The Future of Decision Making: Less Intuition, More Evidence.
	Help! I Need to Make a Decision!
	Naturalistic Decision Making: Understanding How People Make Decisions in Real World Settings.
	Five (5) Key Steps That Will Improve Your Decision Making. You don't need to be smarter to make smarter decisions (in fact, a lot of smart people make make a lot of stupid decisions).
	Characteristics of Arbitrary vs. Calculated Decision-Making.

Videos

	Roch Paryre, Ph.D. describes the challenge of rewarding decision process instead of decision outcome.
	An example of groupthink illustrated in the tv movie 'Challenger' about the Challenger shuttle disaster.
	How Framing Changes your Decisions.
	Better Decision Making: Outlining an effective decision.
	Derren Brown's recreation of The Milgram Experiment. Study of blind obedience to authority vs. compassion and conscience.
	Effective decision making requires awareness of decision biases. Dr. Roch Parayre gives examples of one decision making bias: overconfidence.
	The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less. A Google TechTalks presentation by Barry Schwartz.
	How stress affects our brains, from memory to the ability to make decisions.
	Dan Ariely (author of Predicably Irrational) talks about irrational decision making.
	How to Make Better Decisions in Life. According to mathematician Garth Sundem, it all boils down to getting the equation right.
	Cognitive or ego depletion and its negative impact on making decisions when under stress.
	The Asch Conformity Experiments - a series of studies in the 1950s that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.

Humor

	Dilbert and Prisoner's Dilemma.
	Make careful decisions about your Rolos candies!

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How to Make Better Decisions and Avoid Decision Making Traps

(Tips, Techniques, Theories, and Insights)

Articles

Videos

Humor

How to Make Better Decisions and
Avoid Decision Making Traps