Sticks and stones: decision making by rumour

Sticks and stones.

THIS Oration is given annually to welcome students to the Hospital. In the past, students spent the first two years of study at the University and often wondered when they would ever see a patient. Then they came to hospital and were welcomed at the annual oration. With the new curriculum, students have been in hospital already, but the welcome is no less genuine. I am going to address my remar...

Decision-making by Children

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision-Making

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

Lung Cancer Treatment Decision-Making by Descriptive Decision-Making Framework

The need of shared decision-making has been discussed by researchers since last few decades and is being practiced in several fields. Medical field is also experiencing its consequent positive impact. Keeping this ongoing trend in mind, this paper proposes a theory-based approach of descriptive decision-making (DM) under the realm of uncertainty along with its application to DM of treatment alt...