I'm curious what research there is about when/how people decide to stop evaluating or gathering evidence, and actually begin executing on an action, and how the order of information presented could therefore effect conclusions. Most of the articles I've found on this so far are related to premature closure in the area of medical diagnoses specifically -- i.e. when people make a diagnosis prematurely. However, it seems like this must be researched in psychology as well- I think I'm just missing the key terms to look at to find it. Any suggestions/idea of the research would be very helpful!
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1$\begingroup$ The process of thinking about a decision before making it is called "deliberation" or "reasoning", and is part of "decision-making". The field of study of how decision-making is influenced by order of presentation of information and other non-rational factors is called "cognitive bias", a prominent sub-field of which is "behavioral economics". $\endgroup$– Arnon Weinberg ♦Commented May 24, 2018 at 4:49
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$\begingroup$ Ty for the comments. Just for future reference, I found the Mindset Theory of Action Phases useful: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d7d1/… $\endgroup$– verybadatthisCommented Jun 6, 2018 at 9:10
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It's possible that there is no sharp threshold between information gathering and acting. A recent paper by Piantadosi exploring that possibility, and citing a ton of (admittedly more conventional/mainstream) work on decision boundaries is:
Alonso-Diaz S, Cantlon JF, Piantadosi ST (2018) A threshold-free model of numerosity comparisons. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0195188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195188
