People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the pos

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People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The advantages and disadvantages of incorporating emotions into a decision making process has perplexed Psychologists for a long time. There are drawbacks to making decisions based on emotions because they sometimes go against what is a supposedly optimum rational decision. However, in some cases, our emotional reactions can also lead to a better decision making than an impartial ratiocination, and the logic of the decision making is apparent only after the decision has been made. Although I agree that people who strictly make decisions based on emotions are poor decision makers, it does not m...

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Sentence: In fact, scietists have shown that sometimes the decisions we make with a blink of an eye, as an instinctive or emotional reaction, are optimum decisions whose logic only appear to only later.
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Sentence: Hence, even though it is ineffective to make decisions strictly based on emotions, sometimes our emotional decisions have a logical grounding that becomes apparent only after the decsions is made.
Error: decsions Suggestion: decisions

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