Decision Making

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Increased activation in the right insula during risk-taking decision making is related to harm avoidance and neuroticism.

Decision making and risk taking are interrelated processes that are important for daily functioning. The somatic marker hypothesis has provided a conceptual basis for processes involved in risk-taking decision making and has been used to link discrete ...
Martin P Paulus, Corianne Rogalsky, Alan Simmons, Justin S Feinstein, Murray B Stein (Neuroimage, 200308)
increased-activation-right-insula-risk-taking-decision-making-related.asp

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Oncology nurses perceptions of their role in resuscitation decisions.

A group of nurses working in a unit for oncology and haematology patients took part in a study on how they perceived their role in resuscitation decisions. Although many of the nurses expressed a desire to be involved in helping patients exercise choice ...
Madeline Bass (Prof Nurse, 200308)
oncology-nurses-perceptions-role-resuscitation-decisions.asp

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Causal belief and the origins of technology.

The primary function of the brain is to control movement. Human interactions with the environment, unlike those of other primates, are based on a belief in cause and effect, and this led to technology. Experiments requiring simple manipulations of the ...
Lewis Wolpert (Philos Transact Ser A Math Phys Eng Sci, 200308)
causal-belief-origins-technology.asp

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Thinking of the future and past: the roles of the frontal pole and the medial temporal lobes.

Human lesion data have indicated that the frontal polar area might be critically involved in having an insight into ones future. Retrospective memory mediated by medial temporal lobes and related structures, on the other hand, could be used to extract ...
Jiro Okuda, Toshikatsu Fujii, Hiroya Ohtake, Takashi Tsukiura, Kazuyo Tanji, Kyoko Suzuki, Ryuta Kawashima, Hiroshi Fukuda, Masatoshi Itoh, Atsushi Yamadori (Neuroimage, 200308)
thinking-future-past-roles-frontal-pole-medial-temporal-lobes.asp

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The influence of opening statement/closing argument organizational strategy on juror verdict and damage awards.

This study examines the influence of the organizational strategy used to structure opening statements and closing arguments on presentation effectiveness in a simulated civil trial. Two organizational structures, a narrative and a legal-expository ...
Shelley C Spiecker, Debra L Worthington (Law Hum Behav, 200308)
influence-opening-statement-closing-argument-organizational-strategy.asp

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Use of a values history in approaching medical advance directives with psychiatric patients.

The Patient Self-Determination Act became federal law in 1990. However, many psychiatric facilities are just beginning to actively address the issue of medical advance directives. The term advance directives, for the purposes of this article, refers ...
Cathy Peters, Patricia Chiverton (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv, 200308)
values-history-approaching-medical-advance-directives-psychiatric.asp

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Predictor variables in competency to stand trial decisions.

Clinicians possess significant discretion in competency to stand trial assessment. Therefore, it is paramount to explore the contribution of individual variables to ensure that the decision-making process is devoid of bias and solely relates to the legal ...
Virginia G Cooper, Patricia A Zapf (Law Hum Behav, 200308)
predictor-variables-competency-stand-trial-decisions.asp

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End-of-life decisions in Swedish ICUs. How do physicians from the admitting department reason?

OBJECTIVE: To study how physicians from the admitting department reason during the decision-making process to forego life-sustaining treatment of patients in intensive care units (ICUs). DESIGN: Qualitative interview that applies a phenomenological ...
Mia Svantesson, Peter Sjökvist, Håkan Thorsén (Intensive Crit Care Nurs, 200308)
end-life-decisions-swedish-icus-physicians-admitting-department-reason.asp

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Critical incident analysis: informed consent and the use of vaginal examinations during labour.

This article is a reflection on a critical incident that occurred during a student placement. It outlines the facts of the incident and analyses the implications of the actions ...
Edel OLoughlin (Midwives (Lond), 200308)
critical-incident-analysis-informed-consent-vaginal-examinations.asp

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The effects of British and American trial procedures on the quality of juror decision-making.

Compared to American trial procedures, British procedures provide a less distracting environment in which jurors can process trial evidence. Relying on theories of persuasion, it was predicted that jurors viewing British procedures would be less affected ...
Marisa E Collett, Margaret Bull Kovera (Law Hum Behav, 200308)
effects-british-american-trial-procedures-quality-juror-decision.asp