How Social Network Size and Quality Affect End-of-Life Surrogate Preferences

Social life, evolution of intelligence, behaviour and human brain size

Social life is one of the most critical factors of the evolution of the behavior of non-human primates and humans. Several factors, such as an increase in brain size, adaptive modules, and grooming, are related to the complexities of social groups. Although some scientists have mentioned foraging as a rival hypothesis for the evolution of behavior, in this research, we tried to investigate the ...

How Superbowl Commercials Affect My Social Network: An Empirical Study on the Evolution of Social Ties through Revealed Preferences

Marketers use online social networks for target and promotion. Identifying influentials that disproportionately affect others is challenging due to network dynamics and social interactions. In this paper, we focus on the former by conducting a quasi-natural experiment on American Superbowl to investigate shifting tie strengths through revealed preferences and exploring the interplay between pop...

Religion and End-of-Life Treatment Preferences:

We use Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data (n=2,678) to assess the effects of religious denomination and ideology on end-of-life treatment preferences in two hypothetical terminal illness scenarios: physical pain and severe cognitive impairment. We found no statistically significant differences when comparing traditionally defined religious denominational groups (i.e., conservative, moderate, and...

Tailoring Data Quality Models Using Social Network Preferences

To succeed in their tasks, users need to manage data with the most adequate quality levels possible according to specific data quality models. Typically, data quality assessment consists of calculating a synthesizing value by means of a weighted average of values and weights associated with each data quality dimension of the data quality model. We shall study not only the overall perception of ...

Caregiver fatigue and surrogate end-of-life decision making.