Attitudes of Decision Makers Toward Adult Day Care

Attitudes toward Intergenerational Exchanges among Administrators in Child and Adult Day Care Centers

Emotional Decision-Makers and Anomalous Attitudes towards Information∗

We use a simple version of the Psychological Expected Utility Model (Caplin and Leahy, QJE, 2001) to analyze the optimal choice of information accuracy by an individual who is concerned with anticipatory feeling. The individual faces the following trade-off: on the one hand information may lead to emotional costs, on the other the higher the information accuracy, the higher the efficiency of de...

Toward an Information Theoretic Approach to Managing Multiple Decision Makers

Citizen science and human computation involves working with multiple, untrusted decision makers. We demonstrate how Bayesian Classifier Combination outperforms a naive Bayes method when classifying documents using unreliable crowdsourced labels. We also present methods for screening workers and selecting informative documents to label. Finally, we explain how the Bayesian Classifier Combination...

Negative Attitudes toward Older Workers and Hiring Decisions: Testing the Moderating Role of Decision Makers’ Core Self-Evaluations

Organizational hiring practices have been charged for unfair treatment on the grounds of age. Drawing on theories of planned behavior and core self-evaluations, this research investigated the impact of negative attitudes toward older workers on hiring decisions and examined the moderating role of decision-makers' core self-evaluations. We tested our hypotheses based on a structured online quest...

Attitudes of academic staffs of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences toward ambulatory care education

Introduction. There is an obvious gap between traditional medical education and occupational expectations of medical graduates. So in order to eliminate this problem and promote students competence in clinical process, a new educational strategy, entitled “ambulatory care education (ACE)” have been suggested which is based on integration of individual clinical expertise and the medical educatio...