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At present, there is a problem that the existing correlation coefficients cannot moderately measure the correlation degree between PFSs, so this paper proposes the new correlation coefficients of PFS. The TODIM method has been proved to be effective in dealing with MCDM problems that consider the psychological behavior of decision makers. This paper extends the TODIM method with the new correlation coefficients of PFS, and the extended TODIM method is called Pythagorean fuzzy CC-TODIM method. By numerical examples, it is verified that the new correlation coefficients of PFS are more reasonable and valid. 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