According to the literature on Environmental Policy Integration (EPI), decisionmaking in complex domains of environmental policy—of which climate change is a prime example—tend fragment and silo into individual dimensions problem. Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs) have been widely used promote more integrated decisionmaking. SACs are intended integrate varied, often fragmented, policy probl...

Atychiphobia, also known as fear of failure, is a prevalent dilemma throughout teens. Numerous studies discuss expectations, and decisionmaking it relates to However, there has been no research that examines the distinctive relationship which exists between those three factors. That main objective this paper: examine extent failure specifically caused by expectations influences teen’s decisionm...

Recent advances in evolutionary game theory have employed stochastic processes of noise in decisionmaking to select in favor of certain equilibria in coordination games. Noisy decisionmaking is justi ed on bounded rationality grounds, and consequently the sources of noise are left unmodelled. This methodological approach can only be successful if the results do not depend too much on the nature...

In Chile, the National Depression Detection and Treatment Program (Programa Nacional de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento de la Depresión, PNDTD) in primary care is a rare example of an evidence-based mental health program that was scaled up to the national level in a low- or middle-income country. This retrospective qualitative study aimed to better understand how policymakers made the decision to sca...

For many years, the study of decisionmaking was a small field of endeavour in the social sciences and psychology. For all the new-found significance attributed to the work by Herbert Simon (1978; 1986) (Nobel laureate in economics) and his colleagues, those genuinely concerned with understanding the full scope and nature of human decisionmaking were consigned to the margins of disciplinary resp...