Bangari, Ravindra Singh

High-risk, critical decision-making under time pressure: Some parallels and learning from split-second choices made in extreme adventure sports - Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers - 49(3), Jul-Sep, 2024: p.197-212

In a world beset with crises, everyone from professional manager down to the layman is keen to understand how to make quick decisions under emerging disruptive situations. This article, employing self-reflective analysis of critical incidents, describes the author’s personal experiences from the field of adventure sports categorised as high-risk, critical decisions, involving split-second choices—while sky-diving and flying—to trace the mental cognitive processes from a decision maker’s perspective. This is used to discuss and establish a practitioners’ operational framework for high-risk, critical decision scenarios, drawing upon established theories and frameworks from cognitive, social and psychological decision research.- Reproduced

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02560909241281423



Critical Decision-making High-risk environments, Reflective analysis, Mindfulness, practitioner-oriented