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Naturalistic decision-making (NDM) investigates the cognitive strategies used by experts in making decisions in real-world contexts. Unlike studies conducted in the laboratory, the NDM paradigm is applied to real human interactions, often characterized by uncertainty, risk, complexity, time pressures and so on. In this approach, the role of experience is crucial in making possible a quick classification of decision-making situations and therefore in making an effective, rapid and prudent choice. Models of behaviour resulting from these studies represent an extraordinary resource for research and for the application of decision-making strategies in high-risk environments. They particularly underline not only that most of the critical decisions that we take are based on our intuition, but that the ability to recognize patterns and other signals that allow us to act effectively is a natural extension of experience.

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  1. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Silvia Dell’Orco

  2. SiPGI—Postgraduate School of Integrated Gestalt Psychotherapy, Torre Annunziata, Italy

    Raffaele Sperandeo

  3. Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy

    Ciro Punzo

  4. Department of Neuroscience and Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Mario Bottone & Mauro N. Maldonato

  5. Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  6. National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Naples, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  7. Department of Humanities, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Vincenzo Bochicchio

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Dell’Orco, S. et al. (2020). Decision-Making Styles in an Evolutionary Perspective. In: Esposito, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M., Morabito, F., Pasero, E. (eds) Neural Approaches to Dynamics of Signal Exchanges. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 151. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8950-4_45

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