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1. How do our lives and experiences influence our decisions? In what way could our lives be pre determined?

2. What Influences our Decision Making?

3. Discover Fit and Health associated with the Discover Channel

4. Link

5. Accessed online on May 26, 2014

6. Subject - What influences our decisions Occasion - An answer to the question "what influences our decision making" Audience - Anyone looking for the answer to this question, a mor teen or adult audience Purpose - To educate people about what factors influence our decisions and help people to better understand possibly why they do and elide the things they do. Speaker - Discover Fit and Health Tone- Professional, Helpful

7. This source mainly focuses on factors that can effect our decision making such as experience, emotional states and desires. It then dives into the effect stress has on making decisions and the relationship between stress and decisions. The idea of stress is then taking to the next level by exploring how stress affects different people or how different decisions affect stress. Lastly is the relationship between the sexes stress and decisions.

8. Our decision-making process is heavily influenced by past experiences, instincts, our emotional states, our capacities for delayed gratification and the strong desire not to make wrong decisions.

9. I am heavily persuaded by the author mainly because of all the scientific research referenced by the text. I can not find anything that lends to giving me a sense of doubt.   1 0. "Our decision-making process is heavily influenced by past experiences, instincts, our emotional states, our capacities for delayed gratification and the strong desire not to make wrong decisions." "When you face more and more options and information, it can complicate your thinking and increase your expectations of regret." "Information overload can make you hesitant to make any choice at all, or to immediately regret your choice once it's been made. The number of other options is so high that you might mourn all the could-have-beens and fixate on the what-ifs." "They found that study participants who were distracted had a harder time staying on task and making decisions than those who were not distracted."