Critical care nurses’ decision-making regarding verification of blindly inserted gastric tubes: A cross-sectional questionnaire studyAbstract:Background: The placement and verification of the correct position of blindly ...
Summary: A study is described of the risk management strategies employed by consumers who have made a purchase by credit. Realistic scenarios involving the purchase of consumer durables were used and adults with a variety of occupations and a range of ...
Risk Behavior in Share Transactions: When Investors Think about ReasonsSummary: Numerous studies suggest that our judgments are not only affected by the availability of advantages or disadvantages of a target, but also by the ease with which this ...
Need for Structure and Fear of Invalidity: Psychometric Analysis of German Scales for the Measurement of “Personal Need for Structure”, “Personal Fear of Invalidity” and “Need for Closure”Summary: The present research deals with German short versions of ...
This paper focuses on behavioral routines in adaptive decision making. In an experiment consisting of two phases, participants worked on recurrent, multiattribute choice problems. In the first phase, routines were induced by relying upon the human ability ...
When people express a preference between two alternatives A and B in terms of a positive choice of one option, this can exceed in strength the same preference expressed as a rejection of the alternative. This effect of response mode has been interpreted ...
Formal probability models of group decision making imply that the normative influence of large opinion factions tends to have a negative impact on the quality of decisions in difficult tasks and a positive impact in easy tasks that many people solve ...
Validation and German Translation of the Maximizing ScaleAbstract: The current paper provides a German translation of the maximizing scale, originally presented by Schwartz et al. (2002). The maximizing scale assesses the individual tendency to strive ...
Preference for Intuition and Deliberation (PID): An Inventory for Assessing Affect- and Cognition-Based Decision-MakingAbstract: People differ in the way they make decisions: Some people prefer intuitive decision making, while others prefer a deliberate, ...
Zielsetzung: Ziel dieses Übersichtsartikels ist es, aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten zur Neuropsychologie der pathologischen Internetnutzung zusammenzufassen. Methodik: Kriteriengeleitete Literaturauswahl. Ergebnisse: Neuropsychologische Studien berichten, ...
Decision making in Parkinson’s disease – an overviewDecision making is a key function in everyday life. Patients with cognitive dysfunctions are often confronted with difficult decisions. Previous research has revealed cognitive deficits in patients with ...
Active risk-defusing behavior is that performed by decision makers in risky situations when they look for additional actions that decrease the risk and allow them to favor a riskier alternative. Our study demonstrates that risk-defusing behavior depends ...
The present study examines the unconscious influence of emotional information on decision making in a simulated hiring situation. We used a subliminal masked priming paradigm with varying faces as primes, which were presented for a duration of 50 ms and ...
This paper is based on the notion that desire represents an important motivational aspect of the decision-making process. Thus, we examined the hypotheses that desire (1) predicts behavioral intentions and (2) mediates the effects of theory of planned ...
Drawing on the mood-behavior model (Gendolla, 2000), I predicted that both negative and positive moods evoke a stronger need for hedonic affect regulation than a so-called neutral mood. To test this hypothesis, participants were induced into a positive, ...
The present research focuses on the question of whether even a preliminary decision causes a confirmation bias in order to maintain the status quo and examines individual differences in consistency between the preliminary and final decision and biased ...
The negative symptom apathy – a consequence of dysfunctional decision-making?Abstract. Apathy is a dimension of negative symptoms that leads to significant impairment in everyday functioning. At the same time there are no adequate treatment options. ...
Computational and cognitive approaches for the therapy development in depressionAbstract. The cognitive model of depression postulates that patients with depression – and people at increased risk – have a negativity bias in attention and memory. The ...
The aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of GPs' initial clinical judgement regarding presence or absence of pneumonia and to assess GPs' strategy for requesting chest X-rays in patients presenting with acute cough. GPs were asked to rate their ...