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Systematic metacognitive reflection helps people discover far-sighted decision strategies: A process-tracing experiment

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2023
Short-sighted decisions can have devastating consequences, and teaching people to make their decisions in a more far-sighted way is challenging. Previous research found that reflecting on one’s behavior can boost learning from success and failure.
Frederic Becker   +4 more
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Rational observers of rational systems [PDF]

open access: yes2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016
This report is the original submission to the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held in December 2016. The proceedings of the conference contains the six page final version. The submission has 8 pages.
Nemcova, Jana   +2 more
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On the effectiveness of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns: Pan metron ariston

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Early evaluations of the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) mandates were constrained by the lack of empirical data, thereby also limiting model sophistication (e.g., models did not take into account the endogeneity of key ...
Leonidas Spiliopoulos
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Toward an attentional turn in research on risky choice

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
For a long time, the dominant approach to studying decision making under risk has been to use psychoeconomic functions to account for how behavior deviates from the normative prescriptions of expected value maximization.
Veronika Zilker   +3 more
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The correct way to test the hypothesis that racial categorization is a byproduct of an evolved alliance-tracking capacity

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The project of identifying the cognitive mechanisms or information-processing functions that cause people to categorize others by their race is one of the longest-standing and socially-impactful scientific issues in all of the behavioral sciences.
David Pietraszewski
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Taking the sting out of choice: Diversification of investments

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2014
It is often the case that one can choose a mix of alternative options rather than have to select one option only. Such an opportunity to diversify may blunt the risk involved in all-or-none choice. Here we investigate repeated investment decisions in two-
Judith Avrahami   +2 more
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Leaving traces behind: Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent wellbeing

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior Reports, 2023
Adolescents spend a significant amount of time on social media and there is a great public worry, from parents to policy makers, about the effect of social media on healthy development.
Mubashir Sultan   +2 more
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2022
In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and
Lewin Michael
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Is that the answer you had in mind? The effect of perspective on unethical behavior

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2012
We explored how the perspective through which individuals view their actions influences their ethicality, comparing a narrow perspective that allows for evaluation of each choice in isolation, to a broad perspective that promotes an aggregate view of one’
Amos Schurr   +3 more
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Educating physicians on strong opioids by descriptive versus simulated-experience formats: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2022
Background Long-term prescriptions of strong opioids for chronic noncancer pain—which are not supported by scientific evidence—suggest miscalibrated risk perceptions among those who prescribe, dispense, and take opioids.
Odette Wegwarth   +5 more
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