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Holiday shopping: Choosing a favorite may increase the likelihood of purchase
This shopping season, salespeople looking to increase the likelihood of a sale can simply ask the potential buyer which of several items they prefer. view more (2007-12-05)
Driven to distraction? Taking your mind off a decision can help
Remember when the answer to a big question came to you in the shower? Is "sleep on it" really good advice for someone making a big decision? A new study Journal of Consumer Research examines the way distraction affects consumers' product decisions. view more (2009-04-21)
Derrida`s deconstruction to help safety industry
A technique used by academics to analyse poetry may soon help industry to find out whether computer safety systems really ARE safe. In a novel example of interdisciplinary academic work, English literature meets computing science in an project to design a decision-making framework for the safety industry. Newcastle University researcher Jim... view more... (2002-01-28)
Red All Over: How the color red affects a referee's judgment
Many sports teams select their uniforms based on the mascot, city or country they are representing, not on a referee's preference or bias. But a new study has found that choosing the color red for a uniform in competitive sports can actually affect the referee's split-second decision-making ability and even promote a scoring bias. view more (2008-08-11)
Safer skies for the flying public
University of Texas professor Constantine Caramanis and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on a air traffic decision-making system that rapidly adapts its flight recommendations without human input based on thousands of changing variables. view more (2008-09-04)
Brain cell mechanism for decision making also underlies judgment about certainty
Countless times a day people judge their confidence in a choice they are about to make -- that they now can safely turn left at this intersection, that they aren't sure of their answer on a quiz, that their hot coffee has cooled enough to drink. view more (2009-05-08)
BID TO DETECT BREATHING PROBLEMS IN THE NEWBORN
Professor Neil McIntosh and Dr Andrew Lyall of Child Life and Health, and Professor Alan Murray of Electronics & Electrical Engineering have been awarded a Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Office Department of Health) grant of £16,139 for work using an artificial neural network to alert hospital staff to air tube blockages, or air or gas... view more... (1999-01-22)
Dutch physicians' responses to requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Physicians in the Netherlands rely on careful patient evaluations and official practice guidelines when considering patient requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS). view more (2005-08-09)
Brain activation can predict the strategies people use to make risky decisions
Watching people's brains in real time as they handle a set of decision-making problems can reveal how different each person's strategy can be, according to neuroscientists at the Duke University Medical Center. view more (2009-05-28)
Simple brain mechanisms explain arbitrary human visual decisions
Mark Twain, a skeptic of the idea of free will, argues in his essay "What Is Man?" that humans do not command their minds or the opinions they form. view more (2008-11-10)
Young teens really are shortsighted, but don't blame impulsivity
According to popular stereotype, young teenagers are shortsighted, leaving them prone to poor judgment and risky decision-making when it comes to issues like taking drugs and having sex. view more (2009-02-06)
How do groups of animals make decisions?
Groups of animals often need to make communal decisions about what to do and when to do it. But how do they make such decisions? Dr Larissa Conradt and Professor Tim Roper from the University of Sussex have developed a model that can be used to design experiments to establish how non-human animals make group decisions. Their model, reported in the... view more... (2003-01-09)
Federal government should give greater support to decision makers coping with climate change
Many state and local officials and private organizations are basing decisions -- such as how to build bridges or manage water supplies -- on the assumption that current climate conditions will continue, but that assumption is no longer valid. view more (2009-03-13)
Could your initials influence where you choose to work? A systematic test of the "name-letter effect"
One of the most important decisions that we can make is what company we will work for. There are a number of factors to consider when making this decision, including salary, benefits and work location. However, there may also be less-obvious factors in play that sway our decision, and without us even knowing it. It is well known that unconscious... view more... (2008-10-24)
Listening device that could save lives
A DEVICE that records and recognises what people are discussing at meetings - and alerts them if decisions are being re-made - is being developed with the help of information systems experts at Staffordshire University. Staffordshire and Lancaster Universities have been jointly awarded £714,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences... view more... (2002-01-08)
Are you feeling lucky? How superstition impacts consumer choice
Despite their strong impact on the marketplace, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the how superstitious beliefs impact decision making. view more (2008-02-13)
The rise of knowledge work threatens social equality
Along with the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs), work processes are becoming ever more knowledge-intensive. This has brought about higher requirements for formal qualifications, a constant pressure to upgrade existing skills, and an increase in job tasks that involve independent decision-making and non-routine problem... view more... (2003-01-02)
New method for examining cost-effectiveness of new drugs for chronic illnesses
In a comprehensive analysis and mathematical model of the available scientific data, researchers at the University of York on behalf of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom found that newer drugs used to treat the most common forms of epilepsy are more expensive than older drugs, but produce similar... view more... (2005-12-30)
Legal and ethical concerns over prenatal diagnosis
Hospital genetics units occasionally receive requests from women for prenatal tests for Huntington's disease when their male partners are at risk but do not want to know their genetic status for the disease. In this week's BMJ, researchers discuss the legal and ethical concerns that these cases raise. Cases like these pose considerable ethical and... view more... (2003-02-05)
Resisting peer pressure: new findings shed light on adolescent decision-making
The capacity to resist peer pressure in early adolescence may depend on the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain. view more (2007-07-26)
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