The Influence of Cognitive Failures on Decision-Making in Emerging Adults

Abstract

The present research articulates the convoluted impact of three cognitive failures—false triggering, forgetting, and distractibility—on decision-making approaches in a representative group of college students in a collegiate cohort. A combination of Pearson’s correlation, t-tests, and regression approaches using data from 154 students, we stumbled upon that false triggering is strongly associated with more intuitive decision-making (r =.262, p =.001). Subsequently, regression analysis demonstrated that false triggering had an insignificant effect on rational decision-making (F(3, 150) = 2.730, p =.046), whereas forgetting and distractibility had no statistically significant predictive influence. This empirical information reflect the varying effects of particular cognitive impairments on decision-making processes. It substantially increases our insight of how discrete cognitive failures influence decision-making, accentuating the importance of tailored cognitive therapies and the progress of research into these multifaceted dynamics within educational settings.