Body in the face of uncertainty: The role of autonomic arousal and interoception in decision‐making under risk and ambiguity

This chapter explores self-policing of urban violence in Harpurhey, Manchester. Arguing that ethical decision-making is practiced regularly in the process of policing the actions and behaviours of others. The author addresses the questions of, what does self-policing in the city actually look like? How does one determine what one ‘ought’ to do in the face of illegal or unethical actions in this part of the city? It concludes by arguing that the act of judgment of the behaviours and actions of others, and the assessment of where, when and whether or not to draw upon the services of the state to fulfill the role of policing, suggest that self-policing is not simply an outcome of neoliberal ideologies of self-management, but is an ethical engagement with the quotidian aspects of everyday life on this Manchester social housing estate.

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The Limits of Choice

Learning from My Daughter ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190844608.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 63-76

Author(s):

Eva Feder Kittay

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Reproductive Decisions ◽

Reproductive Choices ◽

Reproductive Decision ◽

Reproductive Decision Making ◽

The Face ◽

Unexpected Outcomes

Inquiring into the relation between reproductive decision-making and the unexpected, this chapter claims that reproductive choices around disability bring out inherent paradoxes of choice in the face of uncertainty. Arguing that reproductive decisions around disability, like all reproductive decisions, must be left to the person carrying the child, this chapter also insists that reproductive choices attend to the role of chance and unexpected outcomes.

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The influence of horizontal and vertical product attribute information on decision making under risk: The role of perceived competence

Journal of Business Research ◽

10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.078 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 97 ◽

pp. 174-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dong-Jun Min ◽

Marcus Cunha

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Perceived Competence ◽

Decision Making Under Risk ◽

Product Attribute ◽

Attribute Information

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P232 The role of preoperative MRI in influencing the surgical decision making, a retrospective look at the experience of a large academic hospital in the face of a rising mastectomy rates

The Breast ◽

10.1016/s0960-9776(11)70178-3 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. S55

Author(s):

H. Ali ◽

S. Hensley Alford ◽

J. Saltzgaber ◽

M. Jankowski ◽

S. Ruszkowski ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Academic Hospital ◽

Surgical Decision ◽

The Face ◽

Surgical Decision Making

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From Chicago to Paris

Measuring Utility ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199372768.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 177-192

Author(s):

Ivan Moscati

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Utility Function ◽

Expected Utility ◽

Economic Model ◽

Expected Utility Theory ◽

Second Phase ◽

Cardinal Utility ◽

Decision Making Under Risk ◽

The Face

Chapter 11 studies the second phase of the debate on expected utility theory (EUT), which commenced in May 1950, when Paul Samuelson, Leonard J. Savage, Jacob Marschak, Milton Friedman, and William Baumol initiated an intense exchange of letters. These economists argued about the exact assumptions underlying EUT, quarreled over whether these assumptions are compelling requisites for rational behavior under risk, and debated the nature of the cardinal utility function u featured in EUT. This correspondence modified the views of all five economists and transformed Samuelson into a supporter of EUT. In a prominent conference in Paris in May 1952, Friedman, Savage, Marschak, and Samuelson advocated EUT in the face of attacks from Maurice Allais and other opponents of the theory. The Paris conference and the publication of an Econometrica symposium on EUT in October 1952 marked the emergence of EUT as the mainstream economic model of decision-making under risk.

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R—Relating

Communication in Palliative Nursing ◽

10.1093/med/9780190061326.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 214-245

Author(s):

Elaine Wittenberg ◽

Joy V. Goldsmith ◽

Sandra L. Ragan ◽

Terri Ann Parnell

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Opportunity To Learn ◽

Serious Illness ◽

New Information ◽

Family Perspectives ◽

Family Acceptance ◽

The Face ◽

Complex Architecture ◽

The Relationship

Relating is a chapter that unpacks the complex architecture of goals always at play for each of us. Because the true motives and goals of a patient are rarely fully understood or realized, the recommendation in this chapter is to attend to the relationship to facilitate the instrumental goals of palliative nursing. Throughout this chapter, authors examine the phenomenon of the patient/family acceptance of an illness status, as well as understanding patient/family perspectives on adjusting to new information. The authors examine the role of uncertainty and how it can impact goals of care discussions and, ultimately, decision-making. Relating to a patient/family creates the opportunity to learn about acceptability of a diagnosis/prognosis, fears associated with uncertainty, and the inevitable dissonance among personal goals in the face of serious illness. Multiple, conflicted, and unrealized goals are a reality that clinicians must navigate and that patients and families must face as they work together to acknowledge a changing life and identity.

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Post-Keynesian Economics, Rationality, and Conventions

The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, Volume 2 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390759.013.0002 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 61-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tom Boylan ◽

Paschal O'Gorman

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Economic Theory ◽

Rational Decision ◽

Keynesian Economics ◽

Rational Decision Making ◽

The Status ◽

The Face ◽

Radical Uncertainty

The role of conventions has been an area of increasing interest to writers in the post-Keynesian tradition, particularly over the last thirty years. This has arisen from the reexamination of John Maynard Keynes’s notion of convention in the context of radical uncertainty along with the status of rationality in the face of uncertainty. This chapter discusses some of the principal tenets of Henri Poincaré’s analysis of conventions and relates them to the post-Keynesian methodological agenda, more specifically to provide a Poincaréan defense of the role of conventions in rational decision-making. It argues that this provides an innovative and more adequate philosophical defense of nonergodicity in economic theory, which has become a central axiom of post-Keynesian economics. The chapter first provides an overview of the post-Keynesian literature on uncertainty and conventions arising from Keynes’s employment of the concept. It then outlines the emergence of conventions and conventionalism in philosophy, examines Poincaré’s conventionalism and its relationship with rationality, and considers the implications of Poincaré’s conventionalism for post-Keynesian economics.

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