background: the patient decision aids (pdas), which can facilitate the decision-making process when choosing the optimal method of treatment, are a challenge to patients. this study tried to determine the attitude of physicians on the barriers of using pdas in the way of prioritizing and proposing solutions to them. methods: this study was a cross-sectional research carried out on 150 clinical ...

This paper proposes a qualitative approach to solve multicriteria decision making problems under possibilistic uncertainty. Depending on the decision maker attitude with respect to uncertainty (i.e. optimistic or pessimistic) and on her attitude with respect to criteria (i.e. conjunctive or disjunctive), four ex-ante and four ex-post decision rules are defined and investigated. In particular, t...

In this work we suggest an approach to comparing fuzzy numbers motivated by a probabilistic view of the underlying uncertainty. An important aspect of the method suggested is its context dependency, the numbers being compared a€ect the process. We discuss the e€ect of decision attitude and show that this approach is particularly useful for aiding decision makers having a temperate decision atti...

The authors investigated whether an implemental mind-set fosters stronger attitudes. Participants who made a decision about how to act (vs. those who held off) expressed a more extreme attitude toward an issue unrelated to the decision (Experiment 1). Participants who planned the implementation of a decision (vs. deliberated vs. control) exhibited less ambivalent (Experiment 2) and more accessi...

This paper summarizes research on determinants of repeated behaviors, and the decision processes underlying them. The present research focuses on travel mode choices as an example ofsuch behaviors. It is proposed that when behavior is performed repeatedly and becomes habitual, it is guided by automated cognitive processes, rather than being preceded by elaborate decision processes (i.e,, a deci...

We present a preference foundation for Chance Theory (CT), a model of decision making under uncertainty where the evaluation of an act depends distinctively on its lowest outcome. This outcome is evaluated with the riskless value function  and the potential increments over it are evaluated by subjective expected utility with a risky utility function . In contrast to earlier approaches with mo...

Dual-channel not only provides reasonable products but also a large quantity of opportunities, where the members’ attitude towards risk has a major impact on channel optimization. In this paper, risks are classified as general risk and interruption risk. As for general risk, combined with risk-aversion attitude, mean-variance method is used to build optimal pricing model and expected utility mo...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to establish baseline information on the current level of knowledge about, attitude toward, and experience with antibiotic usage, and preferences for shared decision making among adolescents in Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey, involving 1,105 respondents who were aged between 13 and 17 years and who lived in Malaysia, was conducted using a v...

conclusions iranian nurses in east azerbaijan provence have negative attitudes toward different aspects of euthanasia and this negative attitude is not related to religious or legal issues. so, searching for the reasons for such an attitude needs more investigation. results participants had a negative attitude towards all aspects of euthanasia. they reported that they would not participate in e...