opinion 6,2

Terrence Sawyer 

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Re:Module 6 DQ 2

How do heuristics influence our everyday interpretation of events and our resulting decisions? What is the most significant action we can take to compensate for the influence of heuristics on our daily decisions? Why?

 

In lieu of a natural pretention to first attribute affective responses to interpretation, the emotional status of a day can have affect in heuristic processing (Slovic, Finucane, Peters, & MacGregor, 2004b). Just as in characteristics with people, there are characteristics with events and environments. The tendency to record a common mental schema from a memory of the cognitive and affective modality for an environment or event can promote heuristic interpretation in preparation and choice of involvement (Tiedens & Linton, 2001). It is curious you can ask a person to participate in an activity, or even participation can be presented in an activity never personally encountered, and the request is rejected from heuristic thought processing. Different scenarios where people agendas were of an insulting agenda, can cause miss-interpretations in seeing similar responses from others in similar situations (Tiedens & Linton, 2001). Miss-interpretations of a person in stereotypical, heuristic processing can be damaging in decisions for reactions and choices with people. Although in general most analysis can be on point, review, investigation, and constructive thought help with aligning creative strategies, to challenge, and mitigate severe consequences and prevent loss when utilizing affective or cognitive judgements (Blumenthal-Barby & Krieger, 2014). Repetitive results do not set that result or solution as actions may be consistent yet usually environment and people or not constant thus requiring need for change of actions and analysis continuously (al-Nowaihi & Dhami, 2015).

al-Nowaihi, A., & Dhami, S. (2015). Evidential equilibrium: Heuristics and biases in static games of complete information. Games (20734336), 6(4), 637-676. DOI: 10.3390/g6040637

Blumenthal-Barby, J. S., & Krieger, H. (2014). Cognitive biases and Heuristics in medical decision making: A critical review using a systematic search strategy. Medical Decision Making, 35(4), 539–557. doi:10.1177/0272989x14547740

Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2004b). Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: Some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality. Risk Analysis, 24(2), 311–322. doi:10.1111/j.0272-4332.2004.00433.x

Tiedens, L. Z., & Linton, S. (2001). Judgment under emotional certainty and uncertainty: The effects of specific emotions on information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(6), 973–988. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.81.6.973