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UrduFor patients considering or undergoing plastic and reconstructive surgery (PRS) procedures, using social media to gather information and answer questions can enhance patient empowerment – potentially leading to increased autonomy and better decision-making, reports a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Tag: Decision Making
How Does the Brain Make Decisions?
Mouse study provides insights into communication between neurons during decision-making
Why we hate to wait
Back in 1981, Tom Petty sang that the waiting is the hardest part. New research from The University of Texas helps to explain why.
Take the money now or later? Financial scarcity doesn’t lead to poor decision making
When people feel that their resources are scarce – that they don’t have enough money or time to meet their needs – they often make decisions that favor short-term gains over long-term benefits. Because of that, researchers have argued that scarcity pushes people to make myopic, impulsive decisions.
Better paths yield better AI
Like climbing a mountain via the shortest possible path, improving classification tasks can be achieved by choosing the most influential path to the output, and not just by learning with deeper networks.
Measuring communication experiences of families of inpatients unable to make decisions for themselves
Researcher-clinicians to measure the experience of communication with hospital staff from the perspective of family members of seriously ill patients unable to make decisions for themselves.
Study finds people expect others to mirror their own selfishness, generosity
Research from the University of Illinois shows that a person’s own behavior is the primary driver of how they treat others during brief zero-sum-game competitions, carrying more weight than the attitudes and behaviors of others. Generous people tend to reward generous behavior and selfish individuals often punish generosity and reward selfishness – even when it costs them.
Researchers prefer same-gender co-authors, study confirms
Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that cannot be simply explained by the varying gender representation across scientific disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell University and the University of Washington.
“Second-Guessing” Is a Hard-Wired Behavior, Study Suggests
Have you ever made a decision that, in hindsight, seemed irrational? A new study with mice, which could have implications for people, suggests that some decisions are, to a certain extent, beyond their control. Rather, the mice are hard-wired to make them.
Overcoming nuke stigma through critical thinking
The food contamination that followed the Fukushima nuclear plant incident in 2011 caused widespread fear, both within Japan and internationally.
Going for an immediate transition to a green economy pays off, even if such transition is very unlikely to happen, a study finds
Nicola Botta of PIK Potsdam, Germany, and colleagues have developed a new method for assessing how much decisions matter in situations in which the consequences of such decisions are highly uncertain.
Is brain learning weaker than artificial Intelligence?
Can the brain, with its limited realization of precise mathematical operations, compete with advanced artificial intelligence systems implemented on fast and parallel computers? From our daily experience we know that for many tasks the answer is yes! Why is this and, given this affirmative answer, can one build a new type of efficient artificial intelligence inspired by the brain? In an article published today in Scientific Reports, researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel solve this puzzle.
Similarities in Human and Chimpanzee Behavior Support Evolutionary Basis for Risk Taking
Research suggests that findings about human risk preferences also apply to risk-taking in chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary ancestor in the animal kingdom, and that individual chimps’ risk preference is stable and trait-like across situations.
EXPERT: Brain-based tips for sticking to New Year’s resolutions
Neuroscientist Elliot Berkman is available to talk about the best ways to make (and keep) New Year’s resolutions. The gimmick-free tips are backed by more than a decade of research Berkman has collected while studying human behavior in the Social…
New study shows how voting methods affect group decision-making
Michael Johnson, professor of management in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, found in a new study that groups that used “multivoting” in unofficial votes were 50% more likely to identify the correct option than those that used plurality or ranked-choice voting.
New palliative care screening tool for surgical ICU patients may facilitate decision-making processes, reduce burden on families, medical staff
A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has developed a screening tool to identify—within seconds—patients who may benefit from palliative care consultations or goals of care discussions.
Add your voice to build a more sustainable future
Help researchers identify key changes that could catalyze and facilitate systemic and structural transformations of our entire societies.
Study examines voters’ threshold for transgressions by political candidates
University of Illinois Chicago researchers explore voters’ decisions when they learn their favored candidates have committed moral transgressions
When heart-assisting implants could save a life, patients who are Black or female don’t get them as often
Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients, or male patients, a new study finds.
Georgia Tech Researcher Finds that Military Cannot Rely on AI for Strategy or Judgment
Although AI can automate everything from commerce to transit, judgment is where humans must intervene, Lindsay and University of Toronto Professor Avi Goldfarb wrote in the paper, “Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War,” published in International Security.
New Theory of Decision-Making Seeks To Explain Why Humans Don’t Make Optimal Choices
A new theory of economic decision-making from Mina Mahmoudi, a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, offers an explanation as to why humans, in general, make decisions that are simply adequate, not optimal.
Our Brains May Think Two Steps Ahead When Trying to Sway Others
Humans are able to think a few steps ahead in non-social situations, such as navigating a new hiking trail or planning a vacation. A Mount Sinai study now shows that we may also do this when interacting with other people.
Physicians are likelier to test for a particular condition if recent patients they saw were diagnosed with the same thing
Emergency department physicians who saw patients with a pulmonary embolism—a blood clot in the lung—were about 15% likelier over the next 10 days to test subsequent patients for the same thing.
Automatically Steering Experiments Toward Scientific Discovery
Scientists at Brookhaven and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories have been developing an automated experimental setup of data collection, analysis, and decision making.
Bisphenol A, Metabolic Profiling, and More Featured in April 2021 Toxicological Sciences
Toxicological Sciences features leading research in toxicology in the April 2021issue, including on the topics of organ-specific toxicology as well as regulatory science, risk assessment, and decision-making.
“Hunger hormone” ghrelin affects monetary decision making
Higher levels of the stomach-derived hormone ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, predict a greater preference for smaller immediate monetary rewards over larger delayed financial rewards, a new study finds. The study results will be presented at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting.
Learn what you live? Study finds watching others can reduce decision bias
New research finds first evidence that watching and learning from others can help reduce bias and improve decision-making. In business, the results could help improve hiring practices or increase cost savings.
Presidential roundtable discussion: How do we restore science to policy making? Presidential roundtable discussion: How do we restore science to policy making?
Restoring science in the White House is the topic of the presidential roundtable discussion at that the Society for Risk Analysis’ (SRA) Virtual Annual Meeting, on Thursday, December 17 from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET.
For African American men with prostate cancer, decision regret linked to medical mistrust
Medical mistrust is one reason why African American patients are more likely to have regrets about their choice of treatment for prostate cancer, suggests a study in The Journal of Urology®, Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
MAKING THE BEST DECISION: MATH SHOWS DIVERSE THINKERS EQUAL BETTER RESULTS
A Florida State University researcher published a new study today that tackles how groups make decisions and the dynamics that make for fast and accurate decision making. He found that networks that consisted of both impulsive and deliberate individuals made, on average, quicker and better decisions than a group with homogenous thinkers.
Why are we still failing to stop deforestation?
A new study calls for a radically different approach to managing deforestation that focuses on our understanding of how individuals make choices.
Depression symptoms linked to reduced cognitive control in people with autism
Adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with typical development show similar proactive cognitive control. However, symptoms of depression in individuals with autism were linked to less proactive control, a UC Davis study found.
Pandemic research: Economics project to explore impact of biases on social distancing
With neither a vaccine nor a proven treatment available, many communities are relying on social distancing to battle the coronavirus pandemic. The problem: Not everyone agrees to follow these measures. A team of economists at Binghamton University, State University of New York is studying the phenomenon for a new research project.
Read-Across of Chemical Hepatotoxicants; Exposure-Based Cholinergic Synaptic Functional Deficits; and More Featured in April 2020 Toxicological Sciences
The April 2020 issue of the Society of Toxicology’s official journal, Toxicological Sciences, features leading research in toxicology, including several manuscripts covering emerging technologies, methods, and models.
Research Suggests Eyes Reflect Upcoming Decisions
New research suggests that eye movements may come before hand movements in actions that require a two-step decision-making process. The study is published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurophysiology (JNP).