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Decision Research: Recent submissions

  • Cultural Evaluations of Risk: "Values" or "Blunders"? 
    Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul (Harvard Law School, 2006)
    What are the respective contributions of culture and rationality to risk perception? Do disagreements between lay persons and experts (and among members of both groups) originate in conflicting values, differing abilities ...
  • Psychological processes in decision making: probabilities, risk and chance 
    Svenson, Ola; Tyszka, Tadeusz (De Gruyter Open, 2014-02)
    In modern societies, many of the decisions ordinary people are expected to make are based on numerical information. As a reflection of this fact, the contributions in this issue treat decisions and judgments based on ...
  • The Arithmetic of Emotion: Integration of Incidental and Integral Affect in Judgments and Decisions 
    Vastfjall, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Burns, William J.; Erlandsson, Arvid; Koppel, Lina; Asutay, Erkin; Tinghog, Gustav (Frontiers Media, 2016-03-08)
    Research has demonstrated that two types of affect have an influence on judgment and decision making: incidental affect (affect unrelated to a judgment or decision such as a mood) and integral affect (affect that is part ...
  • Greater Emotional Gain from Giving in Older Adults: Age-Related Positivity Bias in Charitable Giving 
    Bjalkebring, Par; Vastfjall, Daniel; Dickert, Stephan; Slovic, Paul (Frontiers Media, 2016-06-15)
    Older adults have been shown to avoid negative and prefer positive information to a higher extent than younger adults. This positivity bias influences their information processing as well as decision-making. We investigate ...
  • Developing Responsive Indicators of Indigenous Community Health 
    Donatuto, Jamie; Campbell, Larry; Gregory, Robin (MDPI, 2016-09-09)
    How health is defined and assessed is a priority concern for Indigenous peoples due to considerable health risks faced from environmental impacts to homelands, and because what is “at risk” is often determined without ...
  • Conflicting health information: a critical research need 
    Carpenter, Delesha; Geryk, Lorie; Chen, Annie; Nagler, Rebekah; Dieckmann, Nathan; Han, Paul (Wiley Open Access, 2015-11-22)
    Conflicting health information is increasing in amount and visibility, as evidenced most recently by the controversy surrounding the risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations. The mechanisms through which conflicting ...
  • Mental Imagery, Impact, and Affect: A Mediation Model for Charitable Giving 
    Dickert, Stephan; Kleber, Janet; Vastfjall, Daniel; Slovic, Paul (PLoS ONE, 2016-02-09)
    One of the puzzling phenomena in philanthropy is that people can show strong compassion for identified individual victims but remain unmoved by catastrophes that affect large numbers of victims. Two prominent findings in ...
  • The influence of identifiability and singularity in moral decision making 
    Wiss, Johanna; Anderson, David; Slovic, Paul; Vastfjall, Daniel; Tinghog, Gustav (Decision Research, 2015-09)
    There is an increased willingness to help identified individuals rather than non-identified, and the effect of identifiability is mainly present when a single individual rather than a group is presented. However, identifiability ...
  • Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation in Northwest Alaska 
    Leiserowitz, Anthony; Robin, Gregory; Failing, Lee (Decision Research, 2006)
    A two-day workshop on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation in northwest Alaska was held in Kotzebue on May 24 & 25. The overall objective of the workshop was to help key stakeholders in northwest Alaska ...
  • Alaskan Opinions on Global Warming 
    Leiserowitz, Anthony; Craciun, Jean (Decision Research, 2006)
  • Sign Theory: A Non-extensional Theory of Preference 
    Lin, Shuyeu; Slovic, Paul (Decision Research, 2003-08)
    A non-extensional theory of preference, called Sign Theory, is proposed and tested. Sign Theory considers preference construction as an evidence-building process, in which local valuation of evidence combines additively ...
  • Improving quarantine risk communication: Understanding public risk perceptions 
    Finucane, Melissa (Decision Research, 2000-11)
    Maintaining the health and wealth of Australia depends vitally on protecting the nation's environmental and cultural treasures while capitalizing on the opportunities presented by new technologies and products. Achieving ...
  • Imagery, Affect, and Decision Making 
    Slovic, Paul; MacGregor, Donald G.; Peters, Ellen (Decision Research, 1998-03-11)
    Traditionally, the principal focus of research on judgment and decision making has been largely cognitive and rationalistic. More recently, however, decision-making researchers have acknowledged the role of non-cognitive ...
  • Lay and Expert Perceptions of Planetary Protection 
    MacGregor, Donald G.; Slovic, Paul; Race, Margaret (Decision Research, 1998)
    As space scientists and engineers plan new missions to Mars and other planets in our solar system, they will face critical questions about the potential for biological contamination of planetary surfaces. In a society ...
  • Attitudes and Perceptions Associated with Osteoporosis and Its Treatments 
    Satterfield, Terre; Johnson, Stephen; Neil, Nancy; Slovic, Paul (Decision Research, 1997-08)
  • A SURVEY OF fOREST•MANAGEMENT INFORMATION NEEDS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 
    Gregory, Robin; Satterfield, Terre (Decision Research, 1998-09-30)
    This report presents the results of a survey of client needs that was conducted by Decision Science Research Institute on behalf of the Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership. The survey was designed ...
  • Retirement Plans and Financial Expectations: A Survey of Leading-edge “Baby Boomers” 
    MacGregor, Donald G.; Slovic, Paul (Decision Research, 2000-11-15)
    “Baby boomers” comprise a significant portion of the U.S. population, and the leading-edge of this group will begin retirement within a decade. These individuals, in the age range of 45 to 55 years, are currently at or ...
  • Can word associations and affect be used as indicators of differentiation and consolidation in decision making? 
    Svenson, Ola; Slovic, Paul (Decision Research, 2002-02)
    Two studies investigated how free associations to decision alternatives could be used to describe decision processes. Choices between San Francisco and San Diego as a vacation city were investigated in the first study ...
  • Microbiologists’ Perceptions of Planetary Protection 
    MacGregor, Donald G.; Race, Margaret (Decision Research, 2001-02)
    As society enters the 21st century, NASA and its international partners are planning to conduct numerous new and exciting missions within the solar system. Many of these missions are motivated by scientific questions in ...
  • Culture, Risk, and the Prospect of Genetically Modified Organisms as Viewed by Tāngata Whenua 
    Satterfield, Terre; Roberts, Mere; Henare, Mark; Finucane, Melissa; Benton, Richard; Henare, Manuka (Decision Research, 2005-05)
    “Risk analysis is both a scientific and a political exercise. Ultimately the whole exercise is driven by values, which determine choices made even within science, and the choices made by decision-makers and by society ...

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