Narratives, environments, and decision-making: A fascinating narrative, but one to be completed.

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I encourage Johnson et al. to ground Conviction Narrative Theory in more detail in foundational, earlier decision-making research - first and foremost in Herbert Simon's work. Moreover, I wonder if and how further reflections about narratives could aid tackling two interrelated grand challenges of the decision sciences: To describe decision-making environments; to understand how people select among decision-strategies in environments.