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Developing and Validating the Multidimensional Proactive Decision-Making Scale
The crucial research questions are how their proactivity in decision situations can characterize individuals, the eventual consequences of proactivity in decision situations, and how…
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Improving decision making competence of adolescents
The first decision many young people make is “what do I do after school?” For the most part, different options are presented at best.…
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Defining and Aligning Supply Chain Objectives Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic 3
In order to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies face numerous strategic decisions of utmost importance for their future. Being aware of one‘s…
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Minimizing the impact of fake news on the real world by debiasing the belief perseverance bias
Fake news is false news stories packaged and published as if they were genuine with the intention to mislead the reader to damage an…
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Developing methods for identifying, structuring and comparing objectives
Identifying the objectives of a hostile organization whose decision-makers are not interested in cooperation or even contact with them might be dangerous. In such…
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Comparative Analysis of Terrorists’ Objectives Hierarchies
To develop effective counterterrorism strategies, it is important to understand the capabilities and objectives of terrorist groups. Much of the understanding of these groups…
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Effects of Proactive Decision Making On Life Satisfaction
Proactive decision making, a concept recently introduced to behavioural operational research and decision analysis, addresses effective decision making during its phase of generating alternatives.…
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Developing the decision support system “Entscheidungsnavi”
My objective improving individual and organizational decision-making. Therefore, my colleague von Nitzsch (RWTH Aachen) and I develop a web-based decision support system for decisions…
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Developing more and better alternatives (individually as well as in groups)
Many individuals and organizations spend most of their effort evaluating alternatives without ensuring that the best possible alternative is to be chosen. Therefore, we…