PSYCHOLOGY: Deciding to Opt In

Consent in escrow: opting to opt in

In this paper, we reply to Taylor's (2015) peer commentary on consent-in-escrow. Specifically, we clarify the utility of this novel approach, the way in which it minimizes risks to participants, and how it differs from existing opt-out methods. We further explore its potential use in fields beyond disaster research.

Physician Supervision of Nurse Anesthetists: To Opt In or To Opt Out?

Deciding How to Decide

, © Velleman This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. By “deciding how to decide”, I mean using practical reasoning to regulate one’s principles of practical reasoning. David Gauthier has sugg...

Deciding what to eat

C ells adapt to their surroundings by generating new organelles when needed and degrading them when they become damaged or superfl uous. Many organelles, including the ER and mitochon-dria, are turned over by autophagy—the " self-eating " pathway in which cytoplasmic contents are engulfed in a double-mem-braned vesicle and transported to the lyso-some to be broken down and recycled. But, just l...

Deciding to Distrust

Iris Bohnet and Stephan Meier Abstract: We employ experiments to illustrate one factor contributing to the lack of distrust in the recent corporate scandals: Trust rather than no trust was the default. People are more trusting when the default is full trust than when it is no trust. We introduce a new game, the distrust game (DTG), where the default is full trust and find that in it, trust lev...