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Decision-Making Process

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This chapter presents a description of a decision-making process. The previous chapters have explained the decision-making phenomenon and theories to describe the phenomenon, which, however, have largely omitted a description of the process through which a decision is made. Accordingly, this chapter presents a description of how the psychological process used in decision making is explainable using a technique to follow the decision-making process. This chapter also elucidates the task variables and emotional factors affecting the decision-making process. The final section explains the changes made to cognition in psychological processes after decision making.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Waseda University, 1-24-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan

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Takemura, K. (2014). Decision-Making Process. In: Behavioral Decision Theory. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54580-4_11

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