Factors Affecting Decision-Making and Overcoming Them

We live in a world where any and all information is one click away. Our minds are constantly stimulated and more often than not without our knowledge. This leads to infobesity, a cognitive state that is the result of overconsumption of junk information. Decision-making cannot be understood as one mechanism, it is rather an intermingling of multiple skills and mechanisms which allow us to synthesize, analyze, process, and evaluate information.