Check out the other informative courses in the Officer Virtual Academy, including classes on active shooter response, self-defense, crime scene reconstruction and other training topics. One of the ...

Rational decision-making is different from reflex. It is a conscious process of choosing options from a range of more or less perceived possibilities. For humans, decision-making is often associated ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab held a webinar to present the findings of its study on Situational Decision-Making (Sit-D) police training on October 3. The aim of the study was to understand the ...

How can we improve decision-making skills? My colleagues and I kept asking ourselves that question after we published our findings on the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model in 1986. Frustratingly ...

Shanda O’Dennis is a learning and development associate at Friends Services Alliance, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides services to more than 115 nonprofit organizations in 16 states — ...

Researchers are training neural networks to make decisions more like humans would. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural network ...

A new study finds that psychological resilience is linked to a decision-making bias that places less value on minor losses, ...

Consensus decision-making fosters collaboration but can slow progress if not managed effectively. Balancing consensus with leadership ensures efficiency without sacrificing inclusivity and engagement.