The study of decision making during adolescence has received considerable attention throughout the history of developmental psychology, justifiably, given the marked increases in morbidity and mortality that belie otherwise ...

According to the affect heuristic, people often rely upon their overall affective impression of a target to form judgments of risk. However, innovation research has largely characterized risk perception as a function of ...

In my talk today, I am going to analyze the problems of adhering to policy from a psychological viewpoint. Some research will be described which indicates that we do indeed deviate from the policies we wish to follow. There ...

This case study identified which of Baker and Richards' (2004) leadership models (compliance, performance, ecological) were used to make data-based decisions in six Oregon schools. Two elementary, two middle and two high ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of training in decision-making on U.S. history content knowledge and on decision-making competence. All sophomores (<italic>n</italic> = 387) in one Pacific Northwest ...

Conflicting health information is increasing in amount and visibility, as evidenced most recently by the controversy surrounding the risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations. The mechanisms through which conflicting ...

United States agriculture is continuing to shift toward organic production techniques to align with consumer demand, yet organic products make up an insignificant portion of the food market. This disparity has been examined ...