islamic azad university of maymeh, young and elite research club, maymeh, iran moon is considered a natural calendar for human individuals. proving the crescent sighting is among the issues that all human beings are somehow in need of. similarly, the islamic religious law has subjected some of the important devotional acts upon proving the crescent sighting. this very fundamental function of th...

Whereas situational judgment tests (SJTs) have traditionally been conceptualized as low-fidelity simulations with an emphasis on contextualized situation descriptions and context-dependent knowledge, a recent perspective views SJTs as measures of more general domain (context-independent) knowledge. In the current research, we contrasted these 2 perspectives in 3 studies by removing the situatio...

In recent years, a large body of research has demonstrated that judgments and behaviors can propagate from person to person. Phenomena as diverse as political mobilization, health practices, altruism, and emotional states exhibit similar dynamics of social contagion. The precise mechanisms of judgment propagation are not well understood, however, because it is difficult to control for confoundi...

The majority of previous studies on multiple-cue judgment with continuous cues have involved comparisons between judgments and multiple linear regression models that integrated cues into a judgment. The authors present an experiment indicating that in a judgment task with additive combination of multiple continuous cues, people indeed displayed abstract knowledge of the cue criterion relations ...

Although misjudgment is an issue of primary concern to the justice system and public safety, the response to misjudgment by the human brain remains unclear. We used fMRI to record neural activity in participants that encountered four possible judgments by the justice system with two basic components: whether the judgment was right or wrong [accuracy: right vs. wrong (misjudgment)] and whether t...

BACKGROUND Clinical judgment development is necessary because it leads to appropriate nursing diagnoses, clinical decision-making and health promotion. OBJECTIVES In this study we explored the process of Iranian nurses' development in clinical judgment. PATIENTS AND METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in 2013 at hospitals of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, located in the ...

Judgment aggregation is an abstract framework for studying collective decision making by aggregating individual opinions on logically related issues. Important types of judgment aggregation methods are those of scoring and distance-based methods, many of which can be seen as generalisations of voting rules. An important question to investigate for judgment aggregation methods is how hard it is ...

Education Occupation Marriage Theoretical Model Method Subjects Procedure Measurement of Variables Moral judgment measurement: P1 and P2. Career fulfillment. Occupational attainment. Educational attainment. Dedication to education/career. Academic orientation. Statistical Procedures Results Education and Moral Judgment Development Occupation and Moral Judgment Development Marriage and Moral Jud...

Judgment is the capacity to make decisions after considering available information, contextual factors, possible solutions and probable outcomes. Our aim was to investigate previous research studies regarding assessment of judgment in older adults with different degrees of cognitive impairment. To this end, a search of Pubmed and Lilacs electronic databases for studies published from January 19...