Shedding Light on Mediators' Decision-Making The Conscious & Unconscious Mental Processing Determining Experts' Automatic Intuitive Decisions
Year: 2014
Type: preprint
Abstract: In efforts to provide better clarity about and to improve mediators’ performance and the quality of their decisions during the mediation process, I review the conscious and unconscious mental activities underpinning their judgments. Special attention is given to decisions that are automatic and intuitive, which are believed to dominate the process of decision-making in complex, fast-paced and dynamic conditions such as the mediation context. I challenge the prevailing assumption that decision accuracy is impaired by rapid decision speed, and propose the conditions in which fast automatic decisions could be more controllable and skillful. My proposition integrates the role of complex domain schema, explicit and implicit learning, knowledge acquisition processes and the interplay between conscious and unconscious subsystems for yielding skillful automatic judgments. The article culminates with highlighting the importance of continuous engagement in repetitive learning through reflective endeavor for developing mediation expertise.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Tzofnat Peleg‐Baker
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2146624617