Objective. To determine if student pharmacists' preferences towards experiential and rational thinking are associated with performance on advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) and whether thinking style preference changes following APPEs. Methods. The Rational Experiential Inventory (REI), a validated survey of thinking style, was administered to student pharmacists before starting APP...

Consumer ethics is an underdeveloped specialism of business and marketing ethics, within which most publications have focused on bad rather than on good ethics, and on consumer dishonesty rather than on consumer idealism or consumer responsibility. This conceptual paper explores the latter perspective, and examines how we can seek to understand “consumer social responsibility” from perspectives...

Next-generation business-to-consumer electronic commerce applications will rely more on locating, integrating, and presenting valuable information to consumers than implementing simple economic exchanges. While there are certainly profits to be captured in the economic exchange, the upstream information gathering and decision making activities offer some interesting opportunities for consumer s...

Despite intense research on decision-making in action, we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-making in decision situations under complexity and uncertainty. This paper studies decision-making modes (deliberate vs. intuitive) in complex task environments contingent on perceived complexity, experience, and decision style preference. We find that...

The hypoxic conditions of extreme altitudes have long been known to have psychological and physiological effects on humans. Such conditions may also impact an individual’s economic valuation and decision-making process relative to non-hypoxic conditions. Building on prior work both in the psychology of economics and the effects of hypoxia on psychology and decision making, this study gathered c...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of external influence to parental distress when making a decision about research or treatment for a child with a life-threatening illness and to test potential moderators of this relationship. METHODS Parents (n = 219) who made a decision about research or treatment for a child completed measures of external influence, distress, decision-making preference...

To meet consumer needs for assistance with treatment and provider choices, as well as cost and budget management, consumer decision-support tools have evolved and proliferated in recent years. Interest in these decision aids has accelerated with the expectation that consumer participation in health care decision-making will promote self-care and information transparency. Consumer participation ...

The aim of this paper is to understand the process by which consumers’ perception of online VR environments impact their purchase decision. Combining factor and process models, we propose a transaction framework suggestive of consumer decision-making in VR e-commerce environments. The framework is informed by theory to be validated by an experimental design to understand the antecedents and con...