Topic Description: Commanders, intelligence analysts, and others are often required to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and severe time stress. Uncertainties may be associated with missing, incomplete, or ambiguous information, or with future outcomes that are unknown. Research is needed to: (1) better understand the cognitive processes (e.g., memory, judgment, or problem solving) of the decisionmaker under such conditions, and (2) suggest approaches for supporting the cognitive processes so that the overall quality of timeliness of decisions made under uncertainty and time
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