A complete understanding of decision-making in military domains requires gathering insights from several fields of study. To make the task tractable, here we consider a specific example of short-term tactical decisions under uncertainty made by the military at sea. Through this lens, we sketch out relevant literature from three psychological tasks each underpinned by decision-making processes: categorisation, communication and choice. From the literature, we note two general cognitive tendencies that emerge across all three stages: the effect of cognitive load and individual differences. Drawing on these tendencies, we recommend strategies, tools and future research that could improve performance in military domains – but, by extension, would also generalise to other high-stakes contexts. In so doing, we show the extent to which domain general properties of high order cognition are sufficient in explaining behaviours in domain specific contexts.

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应用对分类、沟通和动态决策的见解：“简单”海上军事决策的案例研究

全面了解军事领域的决策需要从多个研究领域收集见解。为了使任务易于处理，我们在这里考虑一个具体的例子，即海上军队在不确定性下做出的短期战术决策。通过这个镜头，我们从三个心理任务中勾勒出相关文献，每个任务都以决策过程为基础：分类、沟通和选择。从文献中，我们注意到在所有三个阶段都出现了两种普遍的认知倾向：认知负荷的影响和个体差异。利用这些趋势，我们推荐可以提高军事领域绩效的策略、工具和未来研究——但通过扩展，也可以推广到其他高风险环境。这样做时，