Educators use entrustment, a common framework in competency-based medical education, multiple ways, including frontline assessment instruments, learner feedback tools, and group decision making within promotions or competence committees. Within these contexts, entrustment decisions can vary purpose (i.e., intended use), stakes perceived risk consequences), process how is rendered). Each of char...

A type of emergency decision-making which has not received research attention is the police search for a lost person in a rural or wilderness area. For many such incidents, decisions concerning where to search for the lost subject are made by a planning team, each member of which assigns probabilities to the various hypotheses about where the subject might be located, including the residual hyp...

A standard requirement of rationality is that preferences obey stochastic dominance. In this paper, we investigate a new variety of dominance violation from the domain of uncertainty. We find that subjects systematically value a packed prospect, $x if one of two mutually exclusive events E1 or E2 obtains, less than an unpacked and dominated prospect, $x if E1 obtains, and $x−ε if E2 obtains. We...

In quantity estimation, people often perceive that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. The current study investigated such an unpacking effect in temporal distance judgment. Our results showed that participants in the unpacked condition judged a given time interval longer than those in the packed condition, even the time interval was kept constant between the two conditions. Furthermor...

War stories are a form of qualitative data that capture informants’ speciWc accounts of surmounting great challenges. The rich contextual detail aVorded by this approach warrants its inclusion in the methodological arsenal of empirical software engineering research. We ground this assertion in an exemplar Weld study that examined the use of documentation in software maintenance environments. Sp...