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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Individual decision-making"”.
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Individual decision making : pain, rules, and effort
Individuals are involved in daily decision making situations under varying levels of certainty and ease of gathering information, characterized by many factors such as the need to make payments, or the desire to fulfill goals. Essay 1 proposes that when individuals are faced with environments that …
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
Individuals' concerns for others have been the focus of many experimental investigations since the first appearance of the dictator game, which pointed out that, when people have to allocate resources and determine their own and others' payoffs, they decide accordingly to some well-defined …
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Mind your mind: social influence on individual decision-making.
… the common use of the word, I mean that, human’s decisions are generally based on information exchanged within a social system through suggestions, recommendations, comments, and advice. Herbert Simon called this human tendency to rely on socially obtained information (SOI) for decision-making as …
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The relationship between multiple identity attributes and diversity, and individual decision making and group performance: experimental evidence.
The effect of diversity on individual behavior and team and organizational performance is a rapidly growing field of study. Another growing field of study involves the effect of identity-based behavior on individual, team, and organizational outcomes. Diversity and identity, although related to …
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The nature of choice: unraveling individual decision-making for climate-adaptation, science-participation, and environmental stewardship in Mexico
… research assesses the determinants of individual decision making that constrain or enable livelihoods, for science-policy outcomes and environmental behaviors. This research draws on traditional frameworks for behavior change but integrates novel concepts that have been established in …
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Age and Loss Aversion: Impact on PGA Tour Professionals
Understanding how age impacts individual decision-making behavior has piqued the interest of researchers and practitioners. While numerous neuroscience, emotional, motivational, and cognitive experts have explored how older adults behave relative to younger adults, their studies have yielded mixed …
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School's Out : a comparative study of workplace sexuality through the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in California and Texas
… of social, political, and cultural context in individual decision-making about sexual disclosure and performance, explores the consequences of "normalization" of LGBT experiences in the classroom, and addresses the role of identity politics in social change. By taking an intersectional approach …
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What do I do now? Church leader decision-making in response to complaints about one of their team member’s emotionally harmful behaviours
… and gaps church leaders identify as they make decisions when a complaint of emotional harm is submitted against another individual whom the leader oversees. Complaints are made against behaviours that are often nuanced and, to name a few, can include patterns of sarcasm, shaming, overly …
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An Experimental Design to Assess Team Performance Through Shared Mental Models
… Regardless of application or desired outcomes, decisions must be made in groups. Individual decision-making presents a challenge in every domain, and this challenge grows exponentially more difficult when teams of individuals are forced to build a consensus. Joint decision-making is a complex …
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Development of methodologies for the testing and evaluation of solar lanterns
… understand biases in reported usage, addressed individual decision making process, and applied maximum difference methodology to understand user-valuation. For the technical testing, we developed a new system for characterizing the light output of solar lanterns and developed embedded …
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Comparative efficacies of decision strategies and the effects of learning in dynamic environments: a computer simulation approach
… not consistent with micro-empirical knowledge of individual decision making. This has occurred as a result of using heuristics that are derived from behavioral studies which focused on discrete incidents. This approach fails to recognize decision making as a continuous process and overlooks the …
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The Effects of Different Amounts of Feedback on Individual and Group Decision-Making
Recent theories of individual decision-making have emphasized the role of environmental feedback on decision performance and confidence. However, in relation to group decision-making, the notion of feedback has received only minor attention. This study compared individual and group decision …
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"Effects of decision rule and task importance on sharing of ""unique"" information"
… justification for using group rather than individual decision-making units: Groups make use of the broader range of facts (produced by the pooling of individual knowledge sets) available to them. It was hypothesized that two variables held constant across Stasser's studies, decision rule …
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Dating Preferences among African-American Female College Students: Attitudes about Appearance, Trust, and Interracial Relationships
… senior, and graduate- level females relied on individual decision making on dating selection. Supporting the current existing literature on attitudes about interracial relationships, the majority of the women interviewed had negative attitudes toward interracial relationships.
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The organisation and economic geographies of marketing and public relations businesses in the West Midlands
… the importance of different factors in the individual decision-making processes of new enterprise start-ups. This produces a plethora of small business organisations that service clients at distance using information and communication technologies (ICT), coupled with the concomitant industry …
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Unveiling the ESG Landscape: Exploring Revealed Preferences through Archetypal Analysis of Decision-Makers in Environmental, Social, and Governance Causes
This research investigates the motivations and decision-making patterns driving individuals' behavior when giving to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) causes. Through the concept of revealed preferences, this study offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate landscape of ESG …
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Debating deliberative democracy: how deliberation changes the way people reason
… model it is founded upon. Embracing the decision and game theoretic approaches, I develop a three-fold framework to study the effects of deliberation on individual decision-making. After outlining two levels of ‘preference’ and ‘issue’, I focus on the third, which I term agency. I then …
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Essays on public policy and consumer choice : applications to welfare reform and state lotteries
This thesis investigates individual decision-making in response to government policies, in particular, state lotteries and the welfare "family cap." Despite considerable controversy surrounding the use of state lotteries as a means of public finance, little is known about their consumer …
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Managing cross-border transactions-legal framework, strategies and incentives from the participants.
Managing a company requires taking actions and decisions every day. As being a legal entity, an abstract conglomerate of assets, contracts, rights and obligations, a company can only act and express intention through its managers. Whereas the company’s defined object is the purpose and direction …
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Crowdsourcing health discoveries : from anecdotes to aggregated self-experiments
… this information to influence everyday health decisions. Topics of discussion in online forums are often poorly-addressed by existing, clinical research, so a patient's reported experiences are the only evidence. No rigorous methods exist to help patients leverage anecdotal evidence to make …
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