Abstract
Soll, Milkman, and Payne catalogue debiasing strategies that improve judgments across business, medicine, and policy — a practitioner’s map, not a single trick.
Soll, J. B., Milkman, K. L., & Payne, J. W. (2015). The Wiley Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making, The Wiley Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making (pp. 924–951). Wiley. DOI*
Key findings
- Strategy catalogue — Decades of JDM research yield many debiasing moves — choice architecture, consider-the-opposite, training, and more.
- Context matters — What works depends on setting and error type — no universal debias button.
- Decision hygiene — Structured prompts and checklists reduce predictable bias patterns in their review.
- Implementation gap — Knowing debiasing exists ≠ using it — habits and systems carry the move.
Limits
Handbook chapter — synthesis of strategies; test fit before live assign on high-stakes calls.
Application
When a decision feels obviously right — run one debiasing move from the chapter before you commit. See Decision hygiene.