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Theoretical Perspectives on Decision Making

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Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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The chapter provides a broad review of theories of decision making, starting from a dominant cognitive view and shifting to more recent emphases on the essential roles of noncognitive factors such as motivation and emotion. The chapter distinguishes between rational and intuitive decision-making approaches and explores this continuum to reveal an overall nuanced understanding of decision processing. A comprehensive review of research studies examining the impact of goal motivations and personal agency beliefs on decision making, and a closer look at the role of affect, emotion, and stress, highlights the numerous influences on decision making and the different pathways decision-makers can use to arrive at satisfactory decision outcomes. With a focus on adolescents and adults in the general population, the chapter also explores the roles of personal and developmental factors in decision making, such as age, gender, personality, individual differences, and social and cultural influences. After establishing a broad theoretical context, the chapter presents an updated version of the Pathways Model of Decision Processing, an exploratory framework for guiding decision-making study and research involving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Khemka, I. (2021). Theoretical Perspectives on Decision Making. In: Khemka, I., Hickson, L. (eds) Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Positive Psychology and Disability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74675-9_6

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