Emotional disclosure by writing or talking about stressful life experiences improves health status in non-clinical populations, but its success in clinical populations, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), has been mixed. In this randomized, controlled trial, we attempted to increase the efficacy of emotional disclosure by having a trained clinician help patients emotionally disclose and pro...

What happens if a decision maker does not have the right information, and she does not know that she does not have this information? This type of incomplete information, formally called unawareness, is drawing more and more attention, especially in the literature on bounded rationality and behavioral economics. It is hard to deny that many individuals, such as consumers, investors, patients, wo...

We consider a price discrimination problem in which a seller has a single object for sale to a potential buyer. At the time of contracting, the buyer’s private type is his incomplete private information about his value, and the seller can disclose additional private information to the buyer. We study the question of whether discriminatory information disclosure can be profitable to the seller u...

John A Kellum, MD, FCCM, FACP (Work Group Co-Chair), is Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science, and Vice Chair for Research within the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, he is the Director of the Program on Bioengineering and Organ Support for the CRISMA (Clinical Research Investigation...

BACKGROUND Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT) offers risk estimates for a variety of complex diseases and conditions, yet little is known about its impact on actual users, including their decisions about sharing the information gleaned from testing. Ethical considerations include the impact of unsolicited genetic information with variable validity and clinical utility on relatives, and ...

financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. the lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

This paper analyzes the impact of different disclosure regimes on corporate decisionmaking during initial public offering. Specifically, it examines how disclosure rules affect firms’ incentives to acquire forward-looking information, their disclosure practices and investment strategies. The disclosure regimes examined are Non-Disclosure, Voluntary, and Mandatory Disclosure Regimes. The analysi...

background: the information on nutritional status as a part of patients' medical information should be documented on patient records by dietitians. despite the importance of this information in the process of decision making and medical care and even legal aspects, no proper attention has so far been paid to documenting such information on patient records. this study aimed to design a prototype...

In studies of people’s privacy behavior, disclosure is typically measured by a total or a ratio of disclosure. In this paper, we evaluate three information disclosure datasets using a six-step statistical analysis, and show that people’s disclosure behaviors are instead multidimensional: participants’ disclosure of personal information breaks down into a number of distinct factors. Moreover, pe...