Feeling-based decision-making is impulsive and instinctive
📖When you answered “No the father must not have beaten the child,” you were not provided any background information. Is there a likelihood that the child steals all the time and was caught stealing in the school and that the father complained about his son in the workplace? What if many people complained father about his son’s stealing habits on his way home? What if the father had educated his son for several days that he must not steal? What if the father told hundreds of stories, and lovingly tried to convince his son not to steal? What if the father saw his son playing with the same toy that the toy shop owner on his way to home complained him about? What if people threatened the father that they would call the police the next time? What if the father thought “if I do not discipline him, he will be picked up by police and they will torture him more.”
Now, what would you say? The father was right in beating his son, or he was wrong?
You see, now you will have a hard time deciding. When you had less information, it was easy for you to process that information, visualize the situation in your imagination, and judge your feelings. Judgment is easier when a one-sided narrative is presented to the brain. When deeper information is provided, the brain experiences different types of feelings. It can not decide.
When the brain can not decide on a situation instantly, it becomes confused. Then the events are judged based on either your belief or your experience in life.
When brain can feel binary(positive/negative) while imagining any situation, it can take an instinct decision; such a decision making is called impulsive decision, which is based on the instinct of positive or negative feelings