Browsing by Subject "Choice Behavior"
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Choosing wisely in pediatric hospital medicine: five opportunities for improved healthcare value.
(Journal of hospital medicine, 2013-09)BACKGROUND: Despite estimates that waste constitutes up to 20% of healthcare expenditures in the United States, overuse of tests and therapies is significantly under-recognized in medicine, particularly in pediatrics. The ... -
Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.
(J Med Ethics, 2013-12)Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the ... -
Development of a decision aid to inform patients' and families' renal replacement therapy selection decisions.
(BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 2012-12-01)BACKGROUND: Few educational resources have been developed to inform patients' renal replacement therapy (RRT) selection decisions. Patients progressing toward end stage renal disease (ESRD) must decide among multiple treatment ... -
Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease.
(Value Health, 2016-01)OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult. Lack of diagnostic certainty or possible distress related to a positive result from diagnostic testing could limit the application of new testing ... -
Editorial: choice studies in transition.
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Feature-specific clusters of neurons and decision-related neuronal activity.
(The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014-06) -
How actions create--not just reveal--preferences.
(Trends Cogn Sci, 2008-01)The neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by - and reflective of - hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create ... -
Same-sex gaze attraction influences mate-choice copying in humans.
(PLoS One, 2010-02-09)Mate-choice copying occurs when animals rely on the mating choices of others to inform their own mating decisions. The proximate mechanisms underlying mate-choice copying remain unknown. To address this question, we tracked ... -
Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task.
(Proc Biol Sci, 2017-08-30)Chimpanzees' refusal of less-preferred food when an experimenter has previously provided preferred food to a conspecific has been taken as evidence for a sense of fairness. Here, we present a novel hypothesis-the social ...
