Theories attempting to explain the evaluation of subjective values often stress the importance of the context in which a judgment is made. One such theory, the General Evaluability Theory (GET; Hsee & Zhang, 2010), suggests judgments are particularly sensitive to evaluation mode (i.e., a single or joint evaluation). Importantly, deviations in the patterns of judgments of a value across single a...

We propose a new type of social interaction as knowledge transactions. Tow agents consider to trade a set of Heterogeneous knowledge on which they have different value judgments. We aggregate by their different value judgments with threshold. The knowledge transactions are formulated as symmetric coordination games. We investigate what types of knowledge will be successfully traded through the ...

How do consumers determine the value of combinations that include both highand lowpriced products? Prior findings suggest that value judgments are typically additive, such that when each bundled item has positive utility, the overall value of the bundle is at least as great as the value of any individual item it contains. In contrast, this research documents that combining items in different pr...

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

Perceived duration has been shown to be positively related to task-irrelevant, nontemporal stimulus magnitude. To account for this finding, Walsh's (2003) A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM) model suggests that magnitude of time is not differentiated from magnitude of other nontemporal stimulus characteristics and collectively processed by a generalized magnitude system. In Experiment 1, we investigat...

BACKGROUND We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and paraclinical findings in the context of a script concordance test (SCT). FINDINGS A SCT with six scenarios and five questions per scenario was developed. Subsequently, 15 emer...

Measuring and monitoring socioeconomic health inequalities are critical for understanding the impact of policy decisions. However, the measurement of health inequality is far from value neutral, and one can easily present the measure that best supports one's chosen conclusion or selectively exclude measures. Improving people's understanding of the often implicit value judgments is therefore imp...

rapid technological and economic growth over the last several decades has changed human lives and made modern society face complex decision making problems. these kinds of problems are characterized by incommensurate and conflicting criteria or objectives such as cost, reliability, performance, safety and productivity. multi criteria decision making is an approach that can be used to deal compl...