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Institutes, Centers, & Affiliated Organizations: Recent submissions
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making,, 2007-02)Researchers in the decision making tradition usually analyze multiple decisions within experiments by aggregating choices across individuals and using the individual subject as the unit of analysis. This approach can mask ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2007-04)Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2004-01-19)Purpose To study the cognitive processes of early-stage prostate cancer patients as they determined which treatment they preferred, using our cognitively based decision aid. Method The aid was a one-to-one interview ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2012-02-07)Affective neuroscience has helped guide research and theory development in judgment and decision-making by revealing the role of emotional processes in choice behavior, especially when risk is involved. Evidence is ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2010-05-11)Expert judgments are a necessary part of environmental management. Typically, experts are defined by their qualifications, track record, professional standing, and experience. We outline the limitations of conventional ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)This paper describes a psychological phenomenon called psychic numbing that devalues lives when many are at stake and thus enables political leaders to neglect mass suffering, in violation of our professed humanitarian ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2011-03-10)Background: Achieving national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will require public support for climate and energy policies and changes in population behaviors. Audience segmentation – a process of identifying ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2007-05)This article reviews the evolution, communication, and differing interpretations of the National Hurricane Center's “cone of uncertainty” hurricane forecast graphic. It concludes with a discussion of this graphic from the ...
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(Society for Human Ecology, 2006)The perceptions of “public” members of participation processes have been studied far more than those of agency personnel. To improve the practice of public participation, this study, using Q analysis, explores how ...
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(Universidade de São Paulo, 2010)The essay contrasts the scientific approach to analyzing and making decisions about risk with the ways that ordinary people perceive and repsond to risk. It highlights the importance of trust as a determiner of perceived ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2011-10)Donation requests often convey numerical information about the people in need. In two studies, we investigated the effects of numeracy and presentation format on the underlying affective and cognitive mechanisms of donation ...
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(Yale Law School, 2007-10)Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2009-06)Empathic responses, such as sympathy towards others,are a key ingredient in the decision to provide help to those in need. The determinants of empathic responses are usually thought to be the vividness, similarity, and ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making,, 2009-08)Participants decided whom of two patients to prioritize for the surgery in three studies. The factual quantitative information about the patients (e.g., probability of surviving surgery) was given in vignette form with ...
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(American Medical Association, 2009)The Institute of Medicine considers patient-centered care (“care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values” 1(p6)) to be a foundation of high-quality health care, along ...
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(Decision Research, 2008-05)Numeracy is defined as the ability to understand and use numbers. In addition to basic reading and writing skills, today’s consumers need an understanding of numbers and basic mathematical skills to use any numerical ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-08)Using five variants of the Asian Disease Problem, we dissected the risky-choice framing effect by requiring each participant to provide preference ratings for the full decision problem and also to provide attractiveness ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-12)Measuring reaction times to number comparisons is thought to reveal a processing stage in elementary numerical cognition linked to internal, imprecise representations of number magnitudes. These intuitive representations ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-12)Three experiments demonstrate how the processing of negations is contingent on the evaluation context in which the negative information is presented. In addition, the strategy used to process the negations induced different ...
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(Yale Law School, 2007-03)Despite knowing little about nanotechnology (so to speak), members of the public readily form opinions on whether its potential risks outweigh its potential benefits. On what basis are they forming their judgments? How ...
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