Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions 2Nd MIT Press Pbk. Ed

This is the "parts requirement" for building a mental simulation: a maximum of three moving parts. The design specification is that the mental simulation has to do its job in six steps.

A second application is to be sensitive to when you need to compare options and when you do not. For many tasks, we are novices, and the rational choice method helps us when we lack the expertise to recognize

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classical decision analysis method we can call the rational choice strategy. The decision maker: 1. Identifies the set of options. 2. Identifies the ways of evaluating these options. 3. Weights each evaluation dimension. 4. Does the rating. 5. Picks the option with the highest score. For his Ph.D. dissertation, Soelberg studied the decision strategies his students used to perform a natural task: selecting their jobs as they finished their degrees. He assumed that they would rely on the rational choice strategy.