... environment effects ones decision making ability (Bernstein,2003).Naturalistic decision making is effective model for a person comes across similar problems and utilizes his previous experience to make a decision every time.(Klein,1997). The environment also affects judgement making where a person is working therefore, there are many factors, which influences ones judgments, and decisions some of them are discussed as: Cognitive dissonance is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, which can be defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance holds that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive.The theory of cognitive dissonance was first proposed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956 (Glecker,2001) according to which ...

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