• This is well put together. You adduce some evidence in support of details in your theory of decision-making but no evidence for the overall structure or the stages and alternatives that comprise the structure. That means you are merely asserting that we work the way you say we do, and I am probably not the only reader who is not convinced.

• Your illustrations aren't very helpful, I think. Robinson is not dealing with anybody who is doing anything automatically. All of the movers in the situation of the kid who broke into the AUSA's bedroom are moving on consideration. Robinson is not taking advantage of automaticity in deciding: he is using rational pressure on rational decision-makers. The movement from intrapsychic to social analysis was part of the difficulty: Arnold explains one way of thinking about organizational irrationality; Gustav LeBon? and Freud contributed to modern PR, which offers another. Only Freud really interests himself in drawing connections across the boundary from intrapsychic to organizational psychology on the largest scales, and you don't seem interested in bringing him in, though it might be worth some consideration.

-- By GregJohnson - 27 Feb 2009