Decision Making

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Online response preparation in a rapid serial visual search task.

Online response preparation was assessed in a visual search task using rapid serial visual presentation. In each trial, a series of letters was presented sequentially, and participants were instructed to make a target-present response if a prespecified ...
Jeff Miller, Hannes Schröter (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200212)
online-response-preparation-rapid-serial-visual-search-task.asp

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Advance directives and life-sustaining treatment: a legal primer.

Advanced directives are a natural extension of a patients right to self-determination of what actions will be taken upon his or her body. As such, instructional advanced directives such as living wills and DNR orders represent important patient ...
W Eugene Basanta (Hematol Oncol Clin North Am, 200212)
advance-directives-life-sustaining-treatment-legal-primer.asp

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Redressing wounds: finding a legal framework to remedy racial disparities in medical care.

In recent years, numerous medical studies and reports have documented startling disparities between the health status of African Americans and White Americans. The literature is replete with evidence that one of the main causes of these racial ...
Michael S Shin (Calif Law Rev, 200212)
redressing-wounds-finding-legal-framework-remedy-racial-disparities.asp

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From physician to consumer: the effectiveness of strategies to manage health care utilization.

Many strategies are commonly used to influence physician behavior in managed care organizations. This review examines the effectiveness of three mechanisms to influence physician behavior: financial incentives directed at providers or patients, ...
Kathryn E Flynn, Maureen A Smith, Margaret K Davis (Med Care Res Rev, 200212)
physician-consumer-effectiveness-strategies-manage-health-care.asp

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Key issues in delivering midwife-led care: data from telephone interviews across the UK.

This paper is the second in a series exploring the issues in midwife-led care. It provides details of a small-scale survey of midwife led units in England, Scotland and Wales, which was designed to obtain essential information on the process of ...
Marlene Sinclair, Patricia Gillen, John Gardner, Zoe Boreland, Rosemary Hood (Midwives (Lond), 200212)
key-issues-delivering-midwife-led-care-data-telephone-interviews.asp

546.

How to stay stuck in the wrong career.

Everyone knows a story about a talented business person who has lost his passion for work, or a person who ditched a 20-year career to pursue something completely different and is the happier for it. "Am I doing what is right for me, or should I change ...
Herminia Ibarra (Harv Bus Rev, 200212)
stay-stuck-wrong-career.asp

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An analysis of the effects of subjective and objective instruction forms on mock-juries murder/manslaughter distinctions.

Defendants emotions at the time of their crimes may potentially serve as mitigating circumstances in murder/manslaughter cases. The present study examined whether differences between two forms of instructions given juries in such cases affected ...
Matthew P Spackman, Jann C Belcher, Justin W Calapp, Aaron Taylor (Law Hum Behav, 200212)
analysis-effects-subjective-objective-instruction-forms-mock-juries.asp

548.

Job-decision inconsistencies involving social comparison information: the role of dominating alternatives.

Previous research on joint versus separate preference reversals has demonstrated that individuals focus on social comparison information when they are evaluating a single option but focus on absolute salary when they are considering more than 1 option. ...
Ann E Tenbrunsel, Kristina A Diekmann (J Appl Psychol, 200212)
job-decision-inconsistencies-involving-social-comparison-information.asp

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Expert testimony pertaining to battered woman syndrome: its impact on jurors decisions.

Participants (N = 200) were presented with a criminal homicide trial involving a battered woman who had killed her abuser. Within the trial, both the response history (passive, active) and presence of expert testimony pertaining to battered woman ...
Regina A Schuller, Sara Rzepa (Law Hum Behav, 200212)
expert-testimony-pertaining-battered-woman-syndrome-impact-jurors.asp

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Differential age effects for case and hue mixing in visual word recognition.

The authors compare older adults lexical-decision data with younger adults data reported in P. Allen, A. F. Smith, et al. (2002). On the basis of their work, it was proposed that consistent-case wordswould be processed by the faster holistic ...
Philip A Allen, Albert F Smith, Karen E Groth, Jody L Pickle, Jeremy W Grabbe, David J Madden (Psychol Aging, 200212)
differential-age-effects-case-hue-mixing-visual-word-recognition.asp