{"id":"mymindmine-knowledge-decision-making-v1","slug":"decision-making","domain":"psychology","title":"Decision-Making","deck":"How agents select actions under goals, constraints, uncertainty, and competing values.","directAnswer":"Decision-making is the process of selecting among available actions or judgments. Real decisions are shaped by incomplete information, time, state, incentives, perceived risk, memory, emotion, habits, and which options are visible in the first place.","mechanism":["A choice begins with a represented action set, not the infinite set of physically possible actions.","Options are evaluated using expected outcomes, values, heuristics, learned associations, and social information.","The chosen action changes the state from which later choices are made."],"whyItMatters":["The action set itself can be a hidden bottleneck.","MyMindMine treats decision-making as both selection and trajectory design."],"questions":["Why is decision-making hard?","How does uncertainty change choice?","Why do people choose familiar actions?","What makes a good decision different from a good outcome?"],"related":["confirmation-bias","agency","executive-function","motivation","uncertainty"],"sources":[{"label":"APA: definition and scope of psychology","url":"https://www.apa.org/about","publisher":"American Psychological Association"}],"brajology":["CWI models psychologically permitted action corridors.","PRS models possibility, risk perception, and status payoff.","The Choseverse Trajectory Engine models decisions as state transitions.","Path Expansion evaluates what desirable future action-space a move opens."],"updated":"2026-09-20","canonicalUrl":"https://www.mymindmine.com/psychology/decision-making","author":{"name":"John Brajer","url":"https://www.mymindmine.com/people/john-brajer"},"publisher":"MyMindMine","knowledgeSystem":"MyMindMine Knowledge System v1","epistemicBoundary":{"externalSources":"Sources support the external factual orientation.","originalLayer":"Brajology and MyMindMine interpretations are original framework material and are not attributed to external sources."}}