Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "decision-making"
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Context-Dependence in Social Decision-Making
(2021-04-23)Many of society's most significant social decisions involve the joint evaluation of multiple candidates, and yet, we know that decision-makers consistently exhibit violations of rational choice theory when they choose among ... -
Deploying Affect-Inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Agent Decision-Making and Communication
(2012-12-20)Computer agents are required to make appropriate decisions quickly and efficiently. As the environments in which they act become increasingly complex, efficient decision-making becomes significantly more challenging. This ... -
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
(Elsevier, 2009)When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine ... -
Doodle Around the World: Online Scheduling Behavior Reflects Cultural Differences in Time Perception and Group Decision-Making
(ACM Press, 2013)Event scheduling is a group decision-making process in which social dynamics influence people's choices and the overall outcome. As a result, scheduling is not simply a matter of finding a mutually agreeable time, but a ... -
Examining Affect and Decision-Making in Relation to Suicide
(2021-09-08)Suicide is one of the most tragic, costly, and perplexing of all human behaviors. Despite millennia of scholarly inquiry and a century of empirical research, we still do not know why people kill themselves. Thus, suicide ... -
The Impact of Visual Cues on Judgment and Perceptions of Performance
(2013-02-08)No matter what domain, the judgment of performance occupies a key area of investment. Experts are trained and societal institutions are constructed to judge performance, and to identify, develop, and reward the highest ... -
Inter-rater reliability for movement pattern analysis (MPA): measuring patterning of behaviors versus discrete behavior counts as indicators of decision-making style
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)The unique yield of collecting observational data on human movement has received increasing attention in a number of domains, including the study of decision-making style. As such, interest has grown in the nuances of core ... -
Organization of Neural Representations in Mouse Posterior Cortex for Dynamic Navigation Decisions
(2023-05-11)During navigation in dynamic environments, animals adaptively incorporate sensory information into a plan to guide their movements. The neural underpinning of this behavior must integrate sensory processing, navigation ... -
Quantifying Effects of Automated Noise Auditing Notices and Decision Structuring on Noise, Accuracy, and Fairness in Human Decision-Making
(2022-05-23)Subjective decision-making by a single human decision-maker is pervasive in modern society; the effects of these decisions in domains like criminal justice are extremely significant. Prior work has aimed to improve human ... -
Risky Reforms: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Algorithms as Tools for Social Change
(2020-09-10)This thesis considers the relationship between efforts to address social problems using algorithms and the social impacts of these interventions. Despite widespread optimism about algorithms as tools to promote reform and ... -
Socially Conscious Decision Making
(Springer, 2003)For individually motivated agents to work collaboratively to satisfy shared goals, they must make decisions about actions and intentions that take into account their commitments to group activities. This paper examines the ... -
Striatal dopamine structures spontaneous behavior across multiple timescales
(2024-01-03)Animals maneuver through the world by building elaborated, flexible sequences out of shorter, stereotyped actions. In the mammalian brain, monosynaptic and multi-synaptic circuits in cortico-striatal loops are thought to ... -
Task-Dependent Mouse Behavioral Dynamics in Navigational Decision-Making
(2023-11-21)Effective navigation in their environment requires animals to process and integrate diverse inputs across varying timescales while adaptively responding to their surroundings. This ability to integrate information over a ... -
Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016)Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental ... -
Variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is associated with differences in moral judgment
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Moral judgments are produced through the coordinated interaction of multiple neural systems, each of which relies on a characteristic set of neurotransmitters. Genes that produce or regulate these neurotransmitters may ...