Decision Making

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Effects of pro- and anti-tobacco advertising on nonsmoking adolescents intentions to smoke.

PURPOSE: To determine the effects of pro- and anti-tobacco advertising on nonsmoking adolescents intention to smoke in a single cohort. METHODS: All ninth graders at seven public high schools were invited to participate in a study on adolescent tobacco ...
Diane M Straub, Nancy K Hills, Pamela J Thompson, Anna Barbara Moscicki (J Adolesc Health, 200301)
effects-pro-anti-tobacco-advertising-nonsmoking-adolescents.asp

422.

Recruitment and motivation of semen providers in Sweden.

BACKGROUND: Legislation in Sweden requires that semen providers are prepared to be identified to offspring (at maturity) should this be requested. This study presents views of semen providers in Sweden regarding factors associated with their recruitment ...
A Lalos, K Daniels, C Gottlieb, O Lalos (Hum Reprod, 200301)
recruitment-motivation-semen-providers-sweden.asp

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Comparison of black and white families experiences and perceptions regarding organ donation requests.

CONTEXT: Black families donate at a lower rate than white families. To help develop effective interventions, we compared black and white families experiences. OBJECTIVE: To compare the organ donation request experiences of black and white patients ...
Laura A Siminoff, Renee H Lawrence, Robert M Arnold (Crit Care Med, 200301)
comparison-black-white-families-experiences-perceptions-organ.asp

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Neuronal correlates of familiarity-driven decisions in artificial grammar learning.

It has been proposed on the basis of behavioural data that grammaticality judgments in implicit artificial grammar learning paradigms are largely driven by priming based on fragment familiarity. A prediction that follows from this account is that neural ...
C M Thiel, D R Shanks, R N A Henson, R J Dolan (Neuroreport, 200301)
neuronal-correlates-familiarity-driven-decisions-artificial-grammar.asp

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Decision-making in the ICU: perspectives of the substitute decision-maker.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the substitute decision-makers perspectives related to decision-making in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine those variables associated with their overall satisfaction with decision-making. DESIGN: Prospective, ...
Daren K Heyland, Deborah J Cook, Graeme M Rocker, Peter M Dodek, Demetrios J Kutsogiannis, Sharon Peters, Joan E Tranmer, Christopher J OCallaghan (Intensive Care Med, 200301)
decision-making-icu-perspectives-substitute-decision-maker.asp

426.

A critique of Oaksford, Chater, and Larkins (2000) conditional probability model of conditional reasoning.

M. Oaksford, N. Chater, and J. Larkin (2000) proffered a Bayesian model in which conditional inferences are a direct function of conditional probabilities. In the current article, the authors first considered this model regarding the processing of ...
Walter Schroyens, Walter Schaeken (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200301)
critique-oaksford-chater-larkin-s--conditional-probability-model.asp

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Reasoning with quantifiers.

In the semantics of natural language, quantification may have received more attention than any other subject, and one of the main topics in psychological studies on deductive reasoning is syllogistic inference, which is just a restricted form of ...
Bart Geurts (Cognition, 200301)
reasoning-quantifiers.asp

428.

Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help seeking.

Research on mens help seeking yields strategies for enhancing mens use of mental and physical health resources. Analysis of the assumptions underlying existing theory and research also provides a context for evaluating the psychology of men and ...
Michael E Addis, James R Mahalik (Am Psychol, 200301)
men-masculinity-contexts-help-seeking.asp

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Cross-modal enhancement of perceived brightness: sensory interaction versus response bias.

Stein, London, Wilkinson, and Price (1996) reported the presence of cross-modal enhancement of perceived visual intensity: Participants tended to rate weak lights as brighter when accompanied by a concurrent pulse of white noise than when presented ...
Eric C Odgaard, Yoav Arieh, Lawrence E Marks (Percept Psychophys, 200301)
cross-modal-enhancement-perceived-brightness-sensory-interaction.asp

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Patient ventilation and oxygenation. A new day is dawning.

Maintaining an airway and providing adequate ventilation and oxygenation to the patient can be challenging in the prehospital environment. Ventilation and oxygenation are a complex series of interactions between the patient, EMS providers and emergency ...
Dan Hatlestad (Emerg Med Serv, 200301)
patient-ventilation-oxygenation-new-day-dawning.asp