Decision Making

Before I start doing the tutorial sheet that's due in tomorrow morning at 10, I just thought I'd talk about how strange the basis for making decisions are.
I was watching a programme mentioning that decisions can be affected by the following things:

• how the decision is presented: we are more likely to be risky in taking a decision to avoid loss, than a decision to make a gain.
• how easily we are able to suppress the emotional part of our brain
• spontaneity and weighing the pros and cons
• accepting the decision we made: we have the nasty habit of dressing up any bad decisions to make ourselves more content
• our (potential) ability to foresee the future.

Studies have shown that we can sense a sudden change or occurence before it actually happens. Precognition, if you will. It's the kind of feeling you get when you just know that you are about to fall over, or when you can sense you are about to cut yourself in the middle of doing something.

In all cases, it is the emotional section of the brain that reacts to making a decision. I guess it sort of depends on whether we can make a rational argument fast enough to overcome that initial response.

Better decision making comes from clear, concise, rationality.

Why is it that people get so irrational in face of the consequences? Even after much rational thought and deliberation made on someone else's part, how can another person follow up on that decision and be completely WRONG?