The amount of Internet sales has been growing at a high and constant rate over the last years. Many customers use Internet shops on a regular basis. Internet shops ensure a high transparency on product properties (including prices) and customers are able to easily compare a large number of products (options) and choose the one that best fits their expectations. During the decision process, cust...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to examine how personality traits such as sensation- seeking and impulsive decision-making affect Taiwanese college students' intentions to seek online information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Five hundred thirty-five (n = 535) junior and senior college stu...

BACKGROUND Advance care planning (ACP) aids can help prepare patients, family members, and physicians for in-the-moment medical decision-making. We wished to describe the content and approach of paper-based ACP aids in order to characterize existing aids and inform the development of a new ACP aid. METHODS Paper-based ACP aids were identified through an environmental scan and screened for eli...

Accounting ®rms are intensifying their reliance on experiential learning, and experience increasingly involves the use of computerized decision aids [Messier, W. (1995) Research in and development of audit decision aids. In R. H. Ashton & A. H. Ashton, Judgment and decision making in accounting and auditing (pp. 207±230). New York: Cambridge University Press]. Accountants are expected to learn ...

This paper reports on the changes in the extent to which decision aids are perceived to be useful for performing detailed financial audit tasks. The decision aids investigated were automation (AU), decision support systems (DSS), and knowledge based expert systems (KES). Data were collected from highly experienced mangers and partners from various international accounting firms in 1988 and in 1...

This research presents evidence that decision support systems can play an important role in debiasing behaviorally-challenged investors. An empirical study involving 119 participants provides strong evidence for the existence of cognitive biases in investment decision-making and demonstrates the effectiveness of decision aids in lowering the negative impact of such biases on the ability of inve...

e Context: Decision aids prepare patients to make decisions about healthcare options consistent with their preferences. Helping patients choose among available options for colorectal cancer screening is important because rates are lower than screening for other cancers. This systematic review describes studies evaluating patient decision aids for colorectal cancer screening in average-risk adul...

Shared decision making combines individual patient interests and values with clinical best evidence under the guiding principle of patient autonomy. Patient decision aids can support shared decision making and facilitate decisions that have multiple options with varying outcomes for which patients may attribute different values. Given the variable psychosocial impact of skin disease on individu...

Citation: Kumar M and Dutt V (2018) Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconceptions. Front. Psychol. 9:299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00299 Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconce...