BACKGROUND In Japan, there is no decision-making guide regarding long-term tube feeding that specifically targets individuals making decisions on behalf of cognitively impaired older persons (substitute decision makers). The objective of this study was to describe the development and evaluation of such a decision aid. METHODS In this before-and-after study, participants comprised substitute d...

the non-definite multi-attribute decision making problem is the further expansion of research to the traditional multi-attribute decision making problem. In the actual decision-making, because of policy-making question's complexity, decision-making information acquisition costs and other reasons, the decision information which the policy-maker can obtain are mostly ambiguous, so in the real lif...

Managers at tactical and operational levels in many organizations frequently encounter similar decision problems. Decisions taken by different managers for a given problem in an organization vary due to differences in their decision making styles and/or subjectivity. Discovering classes or categories of decision makers with similar decision making styles can contribute towards organizational le...

The behavioral relevance of non-binding defaults is well established. While most research has focused on decision makers’ responses to a given default, we argue that this individual decision making perspective is incomplete. Instead, a comprehensive understanding of default effects requires to take account of the strategic interaction between default setters and decision makers. We analyze theo...