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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Judgment and Decision Making"”.
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Consumer Judgment and Decision-making in Healthcare Contexts
… presents two essays that examine individual judgment and decision making in healthcare contexts. Taken together, the findings have important implications for the effective communication of health information and for understanding the role of race in patients' choice of physicians. In Essay 1, …
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The Effects of Facial Cues on Consumer Judgment and Decision-Making
… structural resemblance, facial expressions, and other perceptual cues—in both individual and group settings—on consumer judgment and decision-making. Essay 1 examines the influence of facial resemblance on consumers* product purchase likelihood. This effect is moderated by consumers* mental …
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Three Studies Examining the Effects of Psychological Distance on Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting
… comprises three studies, a literature review and two experimental studies, that center on the effects of psychological distance on judgment and decision-making in accounting. Construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance (Liberman and Trope 1998; Trope and Liberman 2003), a framework …
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The Impact Of Disclosing Auditor Independence And Tenure On Non-Professional Investor Judgment And Decision-Making
… obligation to remain independent of its client and auditor tenure in the audit report influence non-professional investors’ judgments and decision-making, especially the decision about whether to invest in a particular auditee. In the Auditor’s Reporting Model (ARM) proposal, the Public Company …
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Intuition in auditing: The perceived use of intuition in auditing and its influence on auditors' judgment and decision making
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Encouraging professional skepticism in the industry specialization era: a dual-process model and an experimental test
… skepticism – audit evidence or their own judgment and decision making – interacts with other factors to affect auditors’ professional judgments. As an initial test of the framework, I conduct an experiment that examines how the target of auditors’ skepticism and industry specialization …
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Judgment Processes in Motivation: Anchoring and Adjustment Effects on Judgment and Behavior
Task motivation (i.e., the allocation of time and effort to a task) is an important behavioral domain that has received little attention from judgment and decision making researchers. However, in several theories of motivation, including expectancy theories and the theory of behavior in …
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Contextual Behavioral Influences of Perceptions of Relationship Partners: An Analogue Study
… (i.e., situations in which perceptions influence decisions regarding continued participation in a relationship). An analogue preparation was used to examine the effects of available information, learning history, and motivational variables on interpersonal perceptions. Results from 89 participants …
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Attention modes in consumer decision making: attending to the physical environment makes price more important
… focuses on their immediate environment, to mind-wandering, where one focuses on environment-independent thoughts, feelings, and daydreams. The framework developed and tested in this research predicts how this spectrum of attention affects the relative weight consumers place on price information in …
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Impactful fact-checking for science : communication strategies applying artificial intelligence as the source of information
… the message credibility of science information and reduce the partisan bias in the evaluation of fact-checking messages in the context of science communication. To that end, two moderated mediation models were constructed and tested. In Study 1, experimental results suggest that AI sources will …
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Unintended Consequences of Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
… as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the judgment and decision making of corporate tax executives. Prior research indicates that companies with disclosed material weaknesses in internal controls face significant capital-markets based consequences (Ashbaugh-Skaife et al. 2009; Hammersley …
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Consequentiality, justification and auditors' decision processes: A theoretical framework and two experiments
Justification demands pervade auditing, yet little is known regarding their effects on auditors' decision processes (e.g., Ashton 1990; Gibbins and Newton 1993; Solomon and Shields, in press). In this dissertation, I develop a framework for predicting when justification demands are likely to be of …
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Action Sports in Transition: Optimizing Performance
Within the past two decades, the snowboard and freeski disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and big air (collectively Park & Pipe) have progressed dramatically in objective performance levels while transitioning into Olympic sports. This thesis investigates the nature and impact of this transition, …
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Three essays in decision making
… is composed of three essays about consumer judgment and decision making. In Essay 1, I develop a novel explanation for the well-known endowment effect - the tendency for owners to value goods more than non-owners do. According to a prominent explanation for this effect, the prospect of …
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Memory and Judgment Bias in Retrospective Evaluations
… of the parallelisms between memory phenomena and judgment and decision making biases (e.g., distinctiveness; Hunt, 2006), a memory-based approach is outlined and explored. By doing so, the research also addressed the broader debate surrounding the relationships between memory and judgment, …
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The objectivity demand: experiences and behaviors of psychologists in capital case evaluations
… work in the legal system are bound by ethical standards to practice objectively and to leave personal beliefs and opinions out of their work; however, whether objectivity is practiced is an empirical question. This series of studies was designed to examine the effect of human bias and error in …
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Individuals With Amnesia are not Stuck in Time: Evidence From Risky Decision-Making, Intertemporal Choice, and Scaffolded Narratives
… recollect autobiographical episodic memories and imagine future experiences. In Experiment 2, I use two behavioural economics tasks (a risky decision-making task and an intertemporal choice task) to examine whether amnesic cases judgment and decision-making reflects proneness to risky choices …
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Supporting rational decision-making in civil engineering
… of civil engineering structures, such as bridges and dams, is fundamental for ensuring their continued safe and economical operation, where decisions such as whether or not to suspend operations are based on uncertain knowledge concerning the state of the structure. Modern development in …
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Focusing on the big picture: How widening attention decreases spending
… with some changes to the dependent measures and some studies containing additional mediating measures, so a meta-analysis of the seven studies was conducted. Studies 5 through 8 attempted to find a significant mediator for this effect, including testing whether participants are more likely to …
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The Effects of Auditors' Trust in Client Management on Auditors' Judgments
… the role trust plays in an auditor's decisions. The first study examines whether auditors develop trust in a client's management after working with the client during prior audit engagements. The results indicate that auditors have higher trust in the client's management after a …
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