Mingling Decision Making Metaphors

Getting ahead of illness: using metaphors to influence medical decision making.

BACKGROUND Metaphors influence judgments and decisions in nonmedical contexts. OBJECTIVE First, to investigate whether describing the flu metaphorically increases an individual's willingness and interest in getting a flu vaccination, and second, to explore possible mediators and moderators of the effect that metaphors might have on vaccination intentions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three studies...

Head and Heart Metaphors for Moral Decision Making: Conceptual or Communicative?

When faced with a moral dilemma, following your head versus your heart can result in very different decisions. Earlier work has argued that people who “self-locate” in the head tend to make more rational and less emotional decisions to moral dilemmas than those who “self-locate” in the heart. We replicate this finding, suggest an alternative interpretation of the result, and then extend it with...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Stochastic Decision Making in Manufacturing Environments

Decision making plays an important role in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, statistics and many other fields. In each field, decision making consists of identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues that define the decision. In any field, the nature of the decisions is affected by environmental characteristics. In this paper, we are considered the production planning pro...

O4: Decision Making in Adult Epilepsy Surgery

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