Applications for naturalistic decision‐making

This guest editorial introduces the special section of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 'Applications of Naturalistic Decision Making.' Contributing to the aim of the special section to highlight applications of NDM research for the benefit of an international community of scholars who examine the psychological complexities of decision making, the editorial discusses different approaches to NDM research. It is suggested that the value of NDM research can be seen in its application to understanding expert cognition across a wide variety of professional doains. In addition to exploratory investigation, it includes: (a) rich descriptive studies; (b) field and lab simulations; (c) theoretical development; and (d) a plurality of methods to elicit, document and share expertise.