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Sheppler, Christina. "Warning labels and emotion : the effect of fear on likelihood of use and precautionary intent /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10252.
Full textMaurer, Laurie Ann. "The Deterrent Effect of the Fear of HIV Disease: Influences on Young Adult Risk-Taking Behaviors." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/438873.
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Young adults account for over one in five new HIV diagnoses each year in the United States, and although the total incidence has been decreasing among most groups in recent years, diagnoses among young adults are increasing. To better understand the decision-making processes of young adults 18-24 years old at risk of contracting HIV, as well as the deterrent effect of the fear of HIV on their decision-making, a two-phase study was conducted. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were conducted with young adults (n=31) to gain a comprehensive understanding of their current HIV risk perceptions, decision-making processes, and risky behaviors to inform the second phase of study. The themes and ideas from Phase I, derived through thematic synthesis, were incorporated into a perceptual mapping survey to visually depict young adults’ HIV perceptions and related risk-taking behaviors. The Phase II survey was conducted online via Mechanical Turk to access a diverse sample of young adults (n=226) still at risk of contracting HIV. Both study phases were informed by Social Cognitive Theory and the psychometric paradigm. Results of descriptive analyses and perceptual mapping suggest that HIV is not a factor in young adults’ decision-making and resulting behaviors. Their lack of perceived risk of HIV is exhibited in their continued engagement in unprotected sex, casual sex, lack of sexual history discussion, and infrequent HIV testing. Perceived value of condoms, concerns of pregnancy, and perceptions of the sexual encounter itself, as well as sociodemographic and personality factors, were important factors in their decision-making instead.
Temple University--Theses
Zhao, Jinling. "The Effects of Fear and Happiness on Intertemporal Decision Making: The Proposed Approach/Avoidance (Inhibition) Motivation Model." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1426718437.
Full textFarská, Kateřina. "Cognitive Depletion and Its Effect on Decision Making." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165267.
Full textBasodan, Yosif Abdullah. "The effect of experience on adult decision making processes and decision quality." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239473.
Full textRemenaric, Destiny. "The Effect of Sex-Specific Stressors on Decision Making." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1398443393.
Full textSolgos, Justice T. "The Effect of Regulatory Focus on Ethical Decision-Making." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461153442.
Full textFatima, Iman. "Prototype Generalization and its effect on Decision-making Process." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85353.
Full textAlkhalil, Mohamad. "Effect of eWOM on consumers purchasing decision making process." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159686.
Full textJain, Rhea. "The Development of Entrepreneurial Decision Making: The Effect of Feedback and Gender on Risk Taking, Confidence and Decision Making." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1146.
Full textMyers, Patricia McGarry. "The effect of explanation source and type on auditors' judgment performance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187206.
Full textCorey, Joanna Darrow 1986. "The Effect of foreign language processing on moral decision-making." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/462817.
Full textMillions of people learn a foreign language and some of these people, such as those who work in international organizations, use this language daily as the vehicle of communication, making judgments and choices based on information received in this foreign language. What effect might the vehicle of communication (a foreign language) have on the resulting decisions? The aim of this dissertation is to deepen our knowledge of the effect of foreign language processing, versus native language processing, on moral decision-making. Specifically, this dissertation investigates the so-called moral foreign language effect’s reliability (e.g., choices made for oneself in moral dilemmas), its scope and, most importantly, its potential origins. To do so, behavioral data was collected from thousands of participants and analyzed according to whether or not language had an effect on people’s reported moral choices and judgments. The majority of the participants are native speakers of Spanish/Catalan and university students who have studied English as a foreign language, although when possible other language combinations have been included. The findings suggest that the moral foreign language effect as originally found e.g., choices made for oneself in moral dilemmas, is robust and not attributable to cultural factors. However, the effect is less reliable when participants are asked to judge another’s choice. Finally, the effect does not apply to all kinds of moral judgments, e.g., of another’s transgressions that do not involve a calculated trade-off. Together, the findings suggest that a) the effect is most likely to appear when one is asked to make a decision for oneself versus judging another’s choice and b) the effect is more likely when there is a calculated trade-off involved in the scenario. Regarding the origins of the phenomenon, this suggests that c) the effect is largely attributable to an increase in psychological distance and a decrease in emotional reactivity typically associated with foreign language processing compared to native language processing. This affects the interplay of intuitive and analytical processes that drive our decisions (most likely by reducing the former). Thus, the effect of language is most likely to apply to decisions that involve a conflict between intuitive and analytical processes.
Buck, Elizabeth L. "Effect of biases on economic decision making : an experimental approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0005/MQ29666.pdf.
Full textMishra, Sandeep, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The motivational effect of need on decision-making under risk." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2580.
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Wallace, Wayne A. "The Effect of Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigative Decision Making." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3687475.
Full textConfirmation bias occurs when a person believes in or searches for evidence to support his or her favored theory while ignoring or excusing disconfirmatory evidence and is disinclined to change his or her belief once he or she arrives at a conclusion. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether emotionally charged evidence and evidence presentation order could influence an investigator's belief in a suspect's guilt. The study included 166 sworn police officers (basic training recruits, patrol officers, and criminal investigators) who completed online surveys in response to criminal vignettes across different scenarios to record their measure of guilt belief. Analysis of variance was used to assess the relationship between the 3 independent variables: duty assignment (recruit, patrol, investigator), scenario condition (child and adult sexual assault), and evidence presentation order (sequential, simultaneous, reverse sequential). The dependent variable was confirmation bias (Likert-scaled 0–10 guilt judgment). According to the study results, confirmation bias was least evident in criminal investigators with more experience and training, and both emotion and evidence presentation order can influence guilt judgment. The findings generalize to criminal investigators and attest to the importance of working to include and exclude suspects and to withhold judgment until all available evidence is analyzed. Investigators benefit from this study and through their improved decision making, society benefits as well. This study will contribute to the need for professional dialogue concerning objective fact finding by criminal investigators and avoiding incidents of wrongful conviction.
McMorris, Terry. "The effect of exercise on decision making in team games." Thesis, University of Chichester, 1997. http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/944/.
Full textJin, Victoria Yu-yu. "Effect of organizational structure on performance of decision making teams." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14049.
Full textWallace, Wayne A. "The Effect of Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigative Decision Making." ScholarWorks, 2016. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/hodgkinson/22.
Full textKopko, Kyle Casimir. "The Effect of Partisanship in Election Law Judicial Decision-Making." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275415061.
Full textAlbalawi, Tahani F. "Quantifying the Effect of Cognitive Biases on Security Decision-Making." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1532529752353789.
Full textParry, Emma L. "Effect of assessor team composition on assessment centre decision making." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2000. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12412.
Full textWallace, Wayne A. "The Effect of Confirmation Bias on Criminal Investigative Decision Making." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/407.
Full textStoddard, James E. "The effect of group influence on organizational buying." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03042009-041233/.
Full textGayer, Christopher. "The Effect of Context and Self-Esteem on Decision Making Competence and Preferences for Collaborative Decision Making in Older Adults." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gerontol_etds/2.
Full textSra, Sana. "Circadian Variations and Risky Decision Making." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1291.
Full textDishong, Donald J. "On studying the effect of information warfare on C2 decision making." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA283639.
Full textKennedy, Jillian, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The effect of sexual arousal on risky decision-making / Gillian Kennedy." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3056.
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Mufti, Salman. "The effect of forward and backward reasoning on managerial decision making." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86609.
Full textLe raisonnement est le processus cognitif servant à solutionner des problèmes et à prendre des décisions. Cette étude a examiné l'effet des stratégies de raisonnement en chaînage avant et arrière (forward or backward reasoning) utilisées par des gestionnaires spécialisés pour prendre une décision en situation de problème inhabituel. Nous avons divisé au hasard les gestionnaires (n = 114) en deux groupes de stratégie de raisonnement : en chaînage avant (n = 59) et en chaînage arrière (n = 55). De plus, nous les avons regroupés en deux niveaux d'expertise selon leur expérience et leur éducation : les gestionnaires supérieurs (n = 26) et intermédiaires (n = 88). Nous leur avons tous demandé de lire une analyse de rentabilisation et de rédiger leurs réponses à l'aide d'un modèle de raisonnement en chaînage avant ou arrière, puis de préciser leur préférence. Nous avons fait appel à des codeurs indépendants pour traiter les réponses et procédures statistiques d'analyse de variance (ANOVA), de régression logistique binaire et d'analyse de covariance à variables multiples (MANCOVA); de plus, nous avons procédé à une analyse discriminante des données codées. Les résultats ont montré que les gestionnaires supérieurs ont exprimé une nette préférence pour le raisonnement en chaînage arrière (backward reasoning), alors que les gestionnaires intermédiaires n'ont rapporté aucune préférence particulière. Les gestionnaires supérieurs et intermédiaires du groupe de raisonnement en chaînage avant (forward reasoning) ont pris une décision prudente, tandis que les gestionnaires supérieurs et intermédiaires de l'autre groupe ont pris une décision impliquant un risque, ce qui a entraîné un résultat décisionnel supérieur. Les résultats ont aussi indiqué que la stratégie de raisonnement a particulièrement influencé le résultat décisionnel par l'entremise des quatre facteurs d'analyse des décisions : stratégie,
Gosnell, Greer. "Experiments and externalities : understanding cause and effect in environmental decision making." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3518/.
Full textHu, Chen. "Order matters : the effect of sequential presentation on economic decision making." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUS132.
Full textStandard decision theories presume that choices are based on instantaneous value readouts from stable utility functions. Therefore, decision-making outcomes should be independent of how information about alternative options is acquired. However, in daily life, people often encounter choice-related information sequentially. Previous studies have reported that the encounter order could influence the final choice. During the PhD, we tried to characterize the influence of sequential presentation on economic decision making. In the first study of this PhD thesis, we used a multi-alternative choice task with a sequential presentation of choice options. It has been shown that the order of sequential presentation can influence the direction of value comparison and generate observable behavior signatures: subjects were more likely to choose the best option when it was presented early in a trial. We assume that this is due to active covert pairwise comparisons during the sequential sampling process. We have validated this account using a formal Bayesian model comparison. In the second study, we contrasted the simultaneous presentation of binary bi-attribute choice information with various sequential presentations. We found that when presented with one option first or one attribute first, the early information can influence the weight assignment to late information and accounts for variations in response time. Summing up the evidence, we learned that the influence of presentation order on choice is not neutral; therefore, asking for a revision of standard decision theory
Woodhead, Erin L. "Debiasing the framing effect in younger and older adults' medical decision making." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2006. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4569.
Full textHacker, Marla E. "The Effect of Decision Aids on Work Group Performance." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30690.
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Lewendon, Jane. "The effect of overshadowing bias on individual decision making and referral pathways." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412217.
Full textBolen, Kimberly Rose. "The effect of mood on decision-making : a role for personal experience /." Electronic version (PDF), 2007. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2007-3/bolenk/kimberlybolen.pdf.
Full textSpence, Mark Thomas. "The moderating effect of problem characteristics on the expertise-decision-making link." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186338.
Full textCicmil, Nela. "Effect of reward on visual perceptual decision-making in humans and non-human primates." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589747.
Full textAzam, Akbar <1974>. "Strategic decision making in international firms: effect of top management team internationalization on international strategic decision process." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6886/.
Full textJin, Yuze. "Entrepreneurial decision for rural development under social network effect." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/244534.
Full textWifall, Timothy C. "The effect of punishment on the actor/observer asymmetry in risky decision making." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1310412371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textKC, Raghabendra Pratap. "Essays on social influences in decision making." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284720.
Full textChapman, Taryn Elizabeth. "The effect of management structure and communication architecture on naturalistic decision-making performance /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsc4665.pdf.
Full textWeiss, Virginia. "Effect of Social Peers on Risky Decision Making in Male Sprague Dawley Rats." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/78.
Full textBarker-Ellis, Clare Helen. "The effect of acquired brain injury on theory of mind and decision making." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7790/.
Full textDershowitz, Adam L. (Adam Lee) 1967. "The effect of options on pilot decision making in the presence of risk." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10014.
Full textVan, der Walt J. C. "The effect of incentive based directors' remuneration on ethical decision making in organisations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49796.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The historical development of the role of directors in public listed companies contains inherent tensions by reference to the fiduciary responsibility of directors and the method in which directors are remunerated. The nature of incentive based remuneration is such that it will compel directors, in certain circumstances, to weigh their interests against those towards whom they owe a duty of care and a moral responsibility to act with prudence and temperance. The modem day corporate environment is complex and calls for directors with strong ethical views. This assignment endeavours to identify some of the complexities that contribute towards directors finding it difficult to stay on the ethical "straight and narrow" and attempts to weigh the effect of those factors against the effect of incentive remuneration, both as detractors from ethical behaviour. Both the shareholder supremacy business model and the stakeholder approach are analysed to identify those factors present in each that may add to the ethical complexity that directors have to deal with. The advent of the stakeholder approach in particular, adds an enormous amount of complexity. The case studies deal with two South African financial services companies that have both ceased trading as a consequence of unethical behaviour. The incentive remuneration models of both companies have been found to have played a major contributing role in the decision making processes in the companies, and have contributed to the demise of these organisations. Lessons are taken from the case studies and applied against the backdrop of the various principles of ethical behaviour namely rights, utility, justice and the ethics of responsibility. The finding of this study is that there is a role for incentive remuneration of directors, provided that the ethical pitfalls that this causes are recognised and steps taken to address them. Some of these steps are identified.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die historiese ontwikkeling van die direkteursrol, en spesifiek van openbare genoteerde maatskappye bevat inherente teenstrydighede met verwysmg na direkteursvergoeding en die vertrouensverpligtinge wat op direkteure rus. Die aard van direkteursvergoeding met 'n aansporingskomponent is so dat dit 'n direkteur van tyd tot tyd in 'n posisie plaas waar hy tussen sy eie belange en die van die ander belanghebbendes in 'n maatskappy, aan wie hy dit verskuldig is om met verdrag en versigtig op te tree, moet kies. Die hedendaagse maatskappyomgewing is kompleks van aard, en vereis direkteure met sterk etiese oortuigings. Hierdie werkstuk poog om sommige van die komplekse faktore wat afbreuk doen aan 'n direkteur se vermoe om ten alle tye streng eties op te tree, te identifiseer en op te weeg teen die effek wat direkteursvergoeding speel - beide as items wat afbreuk doen aan etiese optrede. Hier word ondersoek ingestel na beide die sogenaamde "aandeelhouersmodel" asook die" belanghebbende" model waarvolgens besigheid bedryf word. Die ontsluimering van die belanghebbende model veroorsaak spesifiek 'n aansienlike hoeveelheid etiese kompleksiteit. Die gevallestudies behandel twee Suid Afrikaanse fmansiele instellings wat hul bedrywighede gestaak het as gevolg van onetiese optrede deur direkteure. Die aansporingskomponent van die vergoedingsrnodelle in daardie maatskappye blyk 'n groot bydraende faktor te wees in die onetiese besluitneming wat plaasgevind het, en wat uiteindelik tot die ondergang van die ondernemings gelei het. Laastens, word die lesse wat geleer is uit die gevallestudies, toegepas in gewysigde format, en getoets aan die hand van die verskillende beginsels wat etiese besluitneming onderhou, naamlik die beginsels van regte, regverdigheid, utiliteit en die beginsel van etiese verantwoordelikheid. Daar word tot die slotsom gekom dat daar wel ruimte vir aansporingskemas vir direkteure is, maar dat dit slegs eties regverdigbaar sal wees mits ag geslaan word op die lesse wat uit die gevallestudie voortspruit, tesame met die impementering van sekere korrektiewe maatstawwe.
Gerbec, Erin Nicole. "Image Theory: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Feedback on Decision Making." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332128731.
Full textHall, Carrie E. "THE EFFECT OF COUNTERFACTUAL PRIMES ON INFORMATION SHARING BIASES DURING GROUP DECISION MAKING." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1082986410.
Full textMishra, Himanshu Kumar. "Ignorance is bliss the information malleability effect /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2006. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/60.
Full textWu, Xiaoxuan. "THE TRADE-UPGRADE FRAMING EFFECT ON PURCHASE DECISION MAKINGS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/582580.
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When making decisions, consumers often do not follow principles of normative economic theories but those of behavioral ones. Framing effect – one of the most robust phenomena in behavioral research – has been found to influence consumers’ choices and judgment in purchase decisions. In price promotion practices, however, it is not well understood whether framing a product replacement purchase as a trade-in or an upgrade affects consumers’ purchase decision making process. This dissertation research aims to explore the trade-upgrade framing effect on product replacement purchase decisions and to examine the mechanisms through which such effect manifests itself. The results have demonstrated that consumers prefer a price promotion framed as upgrade to a financially equivalent one framed as trade-in, especially when the upgrade promotion is presented after the trade-in one. Furthermore, the framing effect and order effect are mediated by affect and influenced by cognitive focus, semantic cues, and systematic processing. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end.
Temple University--Theses
Diller, James W. "Effects of response effort, delay, and stimulus changes on the sunk-cost effect." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10028.
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