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Affect, Risk, and Decision Making

Slovic, Paul; Peters, Ellen; Finucane, Melissa; MacGregor, Donald G. (2005)

Risk is perceived and acted on in 2 fundamental ways. Risk as feelings refers to individuals' fast, instinctive, and intuitive reactions to danger. Risk as analysis brings logic, reason, and scientific deliberation to bear ...
Cognitive Agents and Pedestrian-Oriented Redevelopment

Perdue, Nicholas (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

Walking is one of the most commonplace forms of human expressions, yet the forms, motivations, and practices of walking vary greatly and are often at odds with dominant discourses in urban and transportation planning. As ...
Coordination on saddle path solutions: the eductive viewpoint

Evans, George W., 1949-; Guesnerie, R. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2001-05-15)

We investigate local strong rationality (LSR) in a one step forward looking univariate model with memory one. Eductive arguments are used to determine when common knowledge (CK) that the solution is near some perfect ...
Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards

Slovic, Paul; Kunreuther, Howard; White, Gilbert F. (Earthscan Publications, 1974-01)

The distress and disruption caused by extreme natural events has stimulated considerable interest in understanding and improving the decision-making processes that determine a manager's adjustment to natural hazards. ...
From Shakespeare to Simon: speculations--and some evidence-- about man's ability to process information

Slovic, Paul (Oregon Research Institute, 1972-04)

Recent experimental evidence is marshalled in support of the position that man's limited memory, attention, and reasoning capabilities lead him to apply simple strain-reducing cognitive strategies for processing information ...
Think Like a Worm: Value-Based Decision Making Cinaenorhabditis elegans

Archer, Johnathan Roberts (University of Oregon, 2018-06)

Nearly all of our actions are based on making choices. The alternatives and their consequences, with input from our memory, our senses, and other factors, are weighed through an incredibly complex neural process. However, ...