PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine relationships between oncology nurses' attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational. SETTING Israeli Oncology Nurses Society annual conference in June 2006. SAMPLE A convenience sample of 147 Israeli nurses who were exposed to death in their daily work. Most worked in oncology departments and wer...

This paper examines the influence of Confucian values and attitudes on individual levels of time discounting and financial risk. We recruited equal numbers of Chinese and Canadian subjects from a Canadian university and asked them to make decisions in discounting and risk aversion tasks. The behaviour reflected from their decisions is further investigated by comparing their scores on the Chines...

Subjects in a laboratory experiment completed the Zuckerman Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) then chose among five alternative gambles with substantial financial stakes. The gambles differed in expected return and variance. Gambles were presented in one of two different frames in a betweensubjects design. In one, subjects were paid a fixed sum for completing the survey and that sum was then at ris...

Several different Bayesian models of epistemic utilities (e.g., Levi 1962, Horwich 1982, Maher 1990, Oddie 1997) have been used to explain why it is rational for scientists to perform experiments. In this paper, I argue that a model—suggested independently by Patrick Maher (1990) and Graham Oddie (1997)—that assigns epistemic utility to degrees of belief in hypotheses provides the most comprehe...

iran in recent decades with the steep fall in fertility is facing a demographic issue. according to the movement of iranian society towards modernity as a result of lifestyle changes, the big question raised in the present research is that ”what lifestyle changes can affect reproductive attitudes of activists?” this study was designed aiming at investigating the attitudes toward childbearing, w...

purpose: the present study aims to investigate the academic librarians’ cognitive, affective, and the behavioral attitudes to the organizational change in the library. methodology: the current research is conducted using survey method. the attitude toward change questionnaire which was developed and validated by dunham and his collaborators was utilized for data gathering. the population of thi...

This paper reports on an experiment designed to examine the effects of small-scale changes in wealth on risk attitudes. We find that the money given prior to risky choices does not induce a change of subjects’ risk preferences. This result supports a key assumption in a recent literature over calibration critique of decision theories. Furthermore, as the money given to subjects in our experimen...