The phrase "affect the decision making" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that influence the process of making decisions.
Example: "Various external factors can significantly affect the decision making of the committee."
Alternatives: "influence the decision process" or "impact the decision-making".
Because the process is private, it will not be clear to what extent merit or political influence and campaign contributions affect the decision making.
Findings have shown that VAAs' recommendations affect the decision making process of a significant part of voters, especially if these people are undecided, women, aged under 34, or they are voting for the first time [3, 4].
Though the Russian government appears not to have used its stakes to affect the decision making at Facebook or Twitter, the revelation comes amid growing scrutiny of how Russian agents used the social networks to influence the 2016 election.
Previous studies on SNPTB (clinicians' perspective) and parental perspectives for child vaccination against pertussis and influenza have highlighted that feelings of regret from provoked harm of medical interventions do affect the decision making [ 5, 10, 12, 13].
In the 11 multiple choice questions, participants were asked to rank the most important single factor as well as the top 5 factors amongst 15 common factors that were likely to affect the decision making process with regards to treatment for the elderly oncology patients.
"[N]ot only do we want to have the impact on the economy, we want to make sure that [the sanction] is going to affect the decision making in Iran and not target the wrong people in Iran and, similarly, to make sure that we maximize the chance of getting international support for these things," said Levey.
Empirical findings suggest that participation and decision making by women members is positively influenced by family size, income of the members as well as their husbands, and number of meetings attended by SHG members, whereas amount of loan granted, and total household assets are found to affect the decisions making of women members adversely.
Hindsight and outcome bias describe how knowledge of the outcome affects the decision making about the quality of processes[ 50, 51].
Until the donee beneficiary obtains vested rights, he is without power to affect the decisions made by the contracting parties.
The Kenen and Fratianni papers deal with the questions of who will be in the European Central Bank and how membership will affect the decisions made by that body.
Information exchange and knowledge management affect the decisions made and the system performance [19].
