Browsing by Subject "decision-making"
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A Generalizable Scale of Propensity to Plan: The Long and the Short of Planning for Time and for Money
(2010)Planning has pronounced effects on consumer behavior and intertemporal choice. We develop a six-item scale measuring individual differences in propensity to plan that can be adapted to different domains and used to compare ... -
Assessment of the quality of existing patient educational tools focused on sudden cardiac arrest: a systematic evaluation by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Thought Leadership Alliance.
(Patient Prefer Adherence, 2013)BACKGROUND: Conveying contemporary treatment options for those at risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is challenging. The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the quality and usability of available patient educational ... -
Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Adaptive Satisficing Decision Making
(2017)Much of our real-life decision making is bounded by uncertain information, limitations in cognitive resources, and a lack of time to allocate to the decision process. To mitigate these pressures, people satisfice, foregoing ... -
Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
(2017)Public health data show that many everyday reckless behaviors reach a developmental peak in adolescence, with adolescents engaging in more reckless behaviors than both children and adults. In contrast, most studies ... -
Neurobiology of Learning and Valuation
(2012)An animal's ability to make adaptive choices is key to its fitness. Thus, the process of determining options, making a decision, evaluating outcomes, and learning from those outcomes to adjust future behavior is a central ... -
The Neurocomputational Basis of Serial Decision-Making
(2017)A hallmark of human behavior is serial decision-making, in which decisions are linked across time: the choices we make are informed by our past decisions and, in turn, influence our future decisions. Flexible, accurate ... -
The Psychology and Evolution of Foraging Skills in Primates
(2012)Primates in the wild face complex foraging decisions where they must assess the most valuable of different potential resources to exploit, as well recall the location of options that can be widely distributed. While differences ... -
Three Ways Social Factors Stratify Individual Choices About Organizations
(2019)The goal of this dissertation is to articulate specific modes and mechanisms by which the process of an individual choosing an organization is shaped by (1) the status of the organization, and (2) the attributes of the chooser. ...
