TY - CHAP AB - Policy-capturing is an experimental technique potentially capable of providing powerful insights into the cognitive bases of work-related decision processes by revealing actors’ “implicit” models of the problem at hand, thereby opening up the “black box” of managerial and organizational cognition. This chapter considers the strengths and weaknesses of policy-capturing vis-à-vis alternative approaches that seek to capture, in varying ways, the inner workings of people’s minds as they make decisions. It then outlines the critical issues that need to be addressed when designing policy-capturing studies and offers practical advice to would-be users concerning some of the common pitfalls of the technique and ways of avoiding them. VL - 2 SN - 978-1-78743-677-0, 978-1-78743-676-3/2397-5210 DO - 10.1108/S2397-52102017005 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2397-52102017005 AU - Nokes Karen AU - Hodgkinson Gerard P. ED - Robert J. Galavan ED - Kristian J. Sund ED - Gerard P. Hodgkinson PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - Policy-Capturing: An Ingenious Technique for Exploring the Cognitive Bases of Work-Related Decisions T2 - Methodological Challenges and Advances in Managerial and Organizational Cognition T3 - New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 95 EP - 121 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -