Advertising practitioners' ethical decision making: The utilitarian viewpoint

Ethical decision making by British general practitioners.

General practitioners in England and Wales were sent a questionnaire asking how they would handle the ethical problems posed by six case vignettes and their reasons for their decisions. The ethical problems included: how much information to divulge to patients, how extensively a physician should become involved in the lifestyles of patients and how to deal with a possible family problem. The va...

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The Ethical Dangers of Deliberative Decision Making

This project benefited from the financial assistance of the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. I want to thank Stéphane Côté, Sanford DeVoe, Adam Galinsky, Julian House, Keith Murnighan, Brendan Strejcek, and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments on early versions of this manuscript. The ...

Assessing Practitioners’ and Patients’ Needs Regarding Shared Decision-Making and Decision Aids

       Background: As part of the process of developing a decision aid for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) according to the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, we were interested in the level of ‘decisional conflict’ of hand surgeons and patients with CTS. This study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no difference between surgeon and patient decisional conflict with respect to test and tr...

Integration of social and utilitarian factors in decision making.

Decision making is influenced by social cues, but there is little understanding of how social information interacts with other cues that determine decisions. To address this quantitatively, participants were asked to learn which of two faces was associated with a higher probability of reward. They were repeatedly presented with two faces, each with a different, unknown probability of reward, an...