Open AccessComplex decision-making: initial results of an empirical study
Author(s) -
Pier Luigi Baldi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2011.3.35
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical decision making , empirical research , group decision making , group (periodic table) , applied psychology , management science , cognitive psychology , social psychology , family medicine , statistics , psychology , engineering , mathematics , chemistry , organic chemistry
A brief survey of key literature on emotions and decision-making introduces an empirical study of a group of university students exploring the effects of decision-making complexity on error risk. The results clearly show that decision-making under stress in the experimental group produces significantly more errors than in the stress-free control group