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Enhancing misinformation correction: New variants and a combination of awareness training and counter-speech to mitigate belief perseverance bias
Belief perseverance bias refers to an individual’s tendency to persist in holding biased opinions even after the misinformation that initially shaped those opinions has…
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Developing and Validating the Multidimensional Proactive Decision-Making Scale
The crucial research questions are how their proactivity in decision situations can characterize individuals, the eventual consequences of proactivity in decision situations, and how…
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Improving decision making competence of adolescents
The first decision many young people make is “what do I do after school?” For the most part, different options are presented at best.…
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Minimizing the impact of fake news on the real world by debiasing the belief perseverance bias
Fake news is false news stories packaged and published as if they were genuine with the intention to mislead the reader to damage an…
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Developing methods for identifying, structuring and comparing objectives
Identifying the objectives of a hostile organization whose decision-makers are not interested in cooperation or even contact with them might be dangerous. In such…
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Developing the decision support system “Entscheidungsnavi”
My objective improving individual and organizational decision-making. Therefore, my colleague von Nitzsch (RWTH Aachen) and I develop a web-based decision support system for decisions…
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Developing more and better alternatives (individually as well as in groups)
Many individuals and organizations spend most of their effort evaluating alternatives without ensuring that the best possible alternative is to be chosen. Therefore, we…
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Recommendations about decision-making for California ministry of transportation
The California Department of Transportation has a budget of approximately US$ 10 billion over four years for repairing the infrastructure of California’s freeways and…
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Designing a Media-Specific Balanced Scorecard by Applying Value-Focused Thinking
The Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton 1992) is one of the five management tools used most often and has been implemented by nearly 40…