Decision Making

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Factors that contribute to women declining antenatal HIV testing.

In this study we aimed to identify factors that contribute to womens decisions to decline an HIV test during their pregnancy in an antenatal clinic setting in Metropolitan London. Voluntary HIV testing ("opt-in") is recommended by the British Department ...
Tomás Campbell, Susan Bernhardt (Health Care Women Int, 200307)
factors-contribute-women-declining-antenatal-hiv-testing.asp

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Patrilineal family values, family planning and variation in stature among Taiwanese six-year-olds.

It has been argued that patrilineal joint family systems tend to bias family planning decisions in favour of sons. A simple model suggests that in such societies, any given son will be more highly valued by his parents (1) the fewer his brothers and (2) ...
B Floyd (J Biosoc Sci, 200307)
patrilineal-family-values-family-planning-variation-stature-taiwanese.asp

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Comparison processes in social judgment: mechanisms and consequences.

This article proposes an informational perspective on comparison consequences in social judgment. It is argued that to understand the variable consequences of comparison, one has to examine what target knowledge is activated during the comparison ...
Thomas Mussweiler (Psychol Rev, 200307)
comparison-processes-social-judgment-mechanisms-consequences.asp

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Temporal construal.

Construal level theory proposes that temporal distance changes peoples responses to future events by changing the way people mentally represent those events. The greater the temporal distance, the more likely are events to be represented in terms of a ...
Yaacov Trope, Nira Liberman (Psychol Rev, 200307)
temporal-construal.asp

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Making causal judgments from the proportion of confirming instances: the pCI rule.

It is proposed that causal judgments about contingency information are derived from the proportion of confirmatory instances (pCI) that are evaluated as confirmatory for the causal candidate. In 6 experiments, pCI values were manipulated independently of ...
Peter A White (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
making-causal-judgments-proportion-confirming-instances-pci-rule.asp

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Determinants of womens fertility in Oman.

OBJECTIVE: International studies have the inverse relationship of women education and empowerment on fertility. Our aim is to study the association of women education, and empowerment with some of the fertility determinants in a community based survey. ...
Asya A Al-Riyami, Mustafa Afifi (Saudi Med J, 200307)
determinants-women-s-fertility-oman.asp

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Conditional reasoning and conditionalization.

In solving conditional reasoning problems, reasoners are assumed to compute the probability of the conclusion, conditionalizing first on the categorical premise, giving the knowledge-based component, and conditionalizing then on the conditional-statement ...
In-mao Liu (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
conditional-reasoning-conditionalization.asp

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Decision making with the "adaptive toolbox": influence of environmental structure, intelligence, and working memory load.

In 2 experiments with a total of 220 participants, the tendency to use simple heuristics such as the take the best heuristic in an adaptive manner was investigated. In a simulated stock market paradigm, the payoff structure of environments was varied, ...
Arndt Bröder (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
decision-making-adaptive-toolbox-influence-environmental-structure.asp

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Is there a unique nursing ethic?

There is no agreement in the nursing literature as to the meaning of the term, nursing ethics. Proposed definitions refer to nurses moral decision-making and behaviors, ethical conflicts, and analysis of ethical issues that arise within nurses practice. ...
Deborah Lowe Volker (Nurs Sci Q, 200307)
unique-nursing-ethic.asp

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Storied ethics: conversations in nursing care.

The purpose of this article is to discuss narration of ethical themes in nursing care. The text represents part of the findings of an ethnographic study aimed at description of everyday work on an oncology ward. Nurses on this ward are constantly ...
Carola Skott (Nurs Ethics, 200307)
storied-ethics-conversations-nursing-care.asp