{"id":11420,"date":"2011-03-17T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=11420"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:59:44","slug":"international-research-scientist-offers-surprising-insights-into-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/03\/international-research-scientist-offers-surprising-insights-into-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"International research scientist offers surprising insights into decision making."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julian Marewski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do you make your best or most important decisions . . . especially when you don\u2019t have a lot of time to decide?<\/p>\n

Do you evaluate all the options carefully, plan a path, modify it and then act with the knowledge that you\u2019ve done all the necessary preparation to ensure your choice is the wisest one?<\/p>\n

Or do you decide rapidly, using a few simple guidelines?<\/p>\n

And is there a scientific basis that can confirm the value of one approach over the other?<\/p>\n

Julian Marewski, a scientist from one of the foremost research centers on human development in the world—the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin—and his colleagues are working on that question, among others. In a lecture titled \u201cMaking Smart Decisions Utilizing Simple Strategies,\u201d sponsored by the Center for Leadership at Florida International University (FIU), Marewski\u2019s lecture, in which he shared results of his research with an audience of more than 60 students, faculty and staff members, was part of \u201cThe Leadership Lectures,\u201d the center\u2019s newly launched lecture series focused on leadership and its challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at the value of decision-making that turns out to be easy to use and are providing scientific justification for our claims,\u201d said Marewski, who has received several awards for his research. \u201cInterestingly, when you talk to managers, they may tell you that they relied on a very simple strategy to make a given decision, but admitting the use of simple strategies is not always socially accepted in a company.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Modesto A. Maidique, FIU president emeritus and executive director of the Center for Leadership, introduced Marewski.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is intuition a way to make decisions?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am interested in psychology and thought the lecture would be valuable,\u201d said Carolina Berget<\/strong>, program coordinator for the College of Business Administration\u2019s graduate programs in management information systems and human resource management. \u201cWhat struck me most was when he spoke about intuition. Many people wouldn\u2019t think of intuition as being \u2018real,\u2019 that it\u2019s not something that can be measured, but he explained how they do research on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More than 60 students, faculty and staff members attended this offering, part of \u201cThe Leadership Lectures.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because of what looks like an unconventional stance in some disciplines, Marewski and his colleagues—from disciplines spanning medicine, economics, and philosophy, to name just a few—are sometimes perceived as the avant-guard, an evaluation that he hopes will enable their work to evolve into a whole new field.<\/p>\n

For upcoming lectures, please visit http:\/\/lead.fiu.edu\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you make your best or most important decisions . . . especially when you don\u2019t have a lot of time to decide? Do you evaluate all the options carefully, plan a path, modify it and then act with the knowledge that you\u2019ve done all the necessary preparation to ensure your choice is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[355,375,381,1927],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23904,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions\/23904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}