How to make risk communication influence behavior change

How to make good-enough risk decisions

Making decisions in the context of risk is an integral part of psychiatric work. Despite this, decisionmaking skills are rarely systematically taught and the processes behind decisions are rarely made explicit. This article attempts to apply contemporary evidence from cognitive and social psychology to common dilemmas faced by psychiatrists when assessing and managing risk. It argues that clini...

How to Make Reactive Planners Risk-Sensitive*

Probabilistic planners can have various planning objectives: usually they either maximize the probability of goal achievement or minimize the expected execution cost of the plan. Researchers have largely ignored the problem how to incorporate risk-sensitive attitudes into their planning mechanisms. We discuss a risk-sensitive planning approach that is based on utility theory. Our key result is ...

Anaphylaxis incidence with rocuronium, succinylcholine, and atracurium: how risk communication can influence behavior.

To the Editor: Reddy et al.1 studying neuromuscular-blocking drug (NMBD)induced perioperative anaphylaxis concluded that “the rate of anaphylaxis to succinylcholine and rocuronium is approximately 10-fold higher than to atracurium.” However, we believe that major methodological issues should be highlighted in this article as the authors’ resulting statement might mislead clinical care. First, a...

Improving Change Management: How Communication Nature Influences Resistance to Change

How to build robots that make friends and influence people

In order to interact socially with a human, a robot must convey intentionality, that is, the human must believe that the robot has beliefs, desires, and intentions. We have constructed a robot which exploits natural human social tendencies to convey intentionality through motor actions and facial expressions. We present results on the integration of perception, attention, motivation, behavior, ...