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I found this an interesting few paras from Klein & Wright’s 2016 paper, discussing the contributions of macrocognition and NDM (naturalistic decision making).

Macrocognition is “the study of cognitive processes affecting people such as firefighters, pilots, nurses, and others who had to wrestle with difficult dilemmas in complex settings under time pressure and uncertainty”.

Macrocognition studies cognition and decision making under naturalistic (real) conditions.  See image 2.

Microcognition, in contrast, is differentiated as the study of the components of thinking, like working memory, attentional processes and more.

Ref: Klein, G., & Wright, C. (2016). Macrocognition: from theory to toolbox. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 54.

Study link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00054

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