Naturalistic decision making

Naturalistic decision making was formulated by Klein, et al., (1993) to explain how decision makers formulate decisions. Klein’s naturalistic decision making model is based on extensive field work and differs from a decision event model in the following ways: much effort is devoted to situation assessment or figuring out the nature of the problem; single options are evaluated sequentially through mental simulation of outcomes; and options are accepted if they are satisfactory, rather than optimal. Also see decision event model.