Title

Focus Article: Taking Stock Of Naturalistic Decision Making

Keywords

Coping with uncertainty; Decision errors; Decision training; Naturalistic decision making; Recognition-primed decisions; Research methodology; Team decision making

Abstract

We review the progress of naturalistic decision making (NDM) in the decade since the first conference on the subject in 1989. After setting out a brief history of NDM we identify its essential characteristics and consider five of its main contributions: recognition-primed decisions, coping with uncertainty, team decision making, decision errors, and methodology. NDM helped identify important areas of inquiry previously neglected (e.g. the use of expertise in sizing up situations and generating options), it introduced new models, conceptualizations, and methods, and recruited applied investigators into the field. Above all, NDM contributed a new perspective on how decisions (broadly defined as committing oneself to a certain course of action) are made. NDM still faces significant challenges, including improvement of the quantity and rigor of its empirical research, and confirming the validity of its prescriptive models. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volume

14

Issue

5

Number of Pages

331-352

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.381

Socpus ID

23044528849 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/23044528849

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