Sharing Photos on Social Media: Visual Attention Affects Real-World Decision Making

This research begins with an understanding of the endemic radicalism of society, not only of the real world, but also of various online social media. This study showed that the avoidance of online radicalism can be stopped as soon as possible by accusing those influenced by the radical radicality of a secular religious approach. The methods used must be assisted in order to achieve balanced understanding (wasathiyah) under the different environmental conditions of the culture through recognizing the meaning of religion. The research tool used is primarily library work and the journal writings by Abu Rokhmad, a terrorist and radicalise specialist. The results of this study are that an approach that supports inclusive ism will avoid the awareness of radicalization through a heart-to-heart approach. This study also shows that radical actors will never cease to argue dramatically until they are able to grasp different views from Islamic law, culture, and families.Keywords: radicalism, deradicalization, multiculturalism, culture, religion, moderate.Penelitian ini berawal dari paham radikalisme yang telah mewabah di masyarakat, bukan hanya di dunia nyata, bahkan sudah menyusup di berbagai media sosial online. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara menangkal radikalisme online dapat dilakukan pencegahan sedini mungkin melalui pendekatan konseling religius multikultural terhadap mereka yang terkena paham radikal radikal. Diantara teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui pemahaman tentang konsep agama juga perlu digalakkan agar memunculkan pemahaman yang moderat (wasathiyah) diberbagai keadaan lingkungan masyarakat. Metode yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah library research dengan sumber utama adalah karya dan jurnal karya Abu Rokhmad seorang pakar dalam masalah terorisme dan radikalisme. Temuan penelitian ini adalah paham radikalisasi itu dapat dihentikan dengan pendekatan hati ke hati dengan mengedepankan budaya yang multikultural. Kajian ini juga membuktikan bahwa pelaku paham radikal tidak akan pernah berhenti memberikan argumen radikal kecuali mampu memahami perbedaan pendapat yang bersumber dari syariat Islam, lingkungan sosial, dan keluarga.Kata kunci: radikalisme, deradikalisasi, multikultural, budaya, agama, moderat.

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The usage of social media encouraged patients' active participation in medical decision-making: cross-sectional survey (Preprint)

Journal of Participatory Medicine ◽

10.2196/11828 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Yen-Yuan Chen ◽

Yu-Fang Cheng ◽

Chau-Chung Wu ◽

Tzong-Shinn Chu

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Media ◽

Medical Decision Making ◽

Active Participation ◽

Medical Decision ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional

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Differences in Reward and Persistency characterise Behavior in Chronic Pain for the Iowa Gambling Task in a Web-based Lab-in-the-field study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.26307 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lili Zhang ◽

Himanshu Vashisht ◽

Alekhya Nethra ◽

Brian Slattery ◽

Tomas Ward

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Media ◽

Chronic Pain ◽

Iowa Gambling Task ◽

Learning Curves ◽

Self Report ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Gambling Task ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Pain Experiences

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a significant world-wide health problem. It has been reported that people with chronic pain experience decision-making impairments, but these findings have been based on conventional lab experiments to date. In such experiments researchers have extensive control of conditions and can more precisely eliminate potential confounds. In contrast, there is much less known regarding how chronic pain impacts decision-making captured via lab-in-the-field experiments. Although such settings can introduce more experimental uncertainty, it is believed that collecting data in more ecologically valid contexts can better characterize the real-world impact of chronic pain. OBJECTIVE We aim to quantify decision-making differences between chronic pain individuals and healthy controls in a lab-in-the-field environment through taking advantage of internet technologies and social media. METHODS A cross-sectional design with independent groups was employed. A convenience sample of 45 participants were recruited through social media - 20 participants who self-reported living with chronic pain, and 25 people with no pain or who were living with pain for less than 6 months acting as controls. All participants completed a self-report questionnaire assessing their pain experiences and a neuropsychological task measuring their decision-making, i.e. the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) in their web browser at a time and location of their choice without supervision. RESULTS Standard behavioral analysis revealed no differences in learning strategies between the two groups although qualitative differences could be observed in learning curves. However, computational modelling revealed that individuals with chronic pain were quicker to update their behavior relative to healthy controls, which reflected their increased learning rate (95% HDI from 0.66 to 0.99) when fitted with the VPP model. This result was further validated and extended on the ORL model because higher differences (95% HDI from 0.16 to 0.47) between the reward and punishment learning rates were observed when fitted on this model, indicating that chronic pain individuals were more sensitive to rewards. It was also found that they were less persistent in their choices during the IGT compared to controls, a fact reflected by their decreased outcome perseverance (95% HDI from -4.38 to -0.21) when fitted using the ORL model. Moreover, correlation analysis revealed that the estimated parameters had predictive value for the self-reported pain experiences, suggesting that the altered cognitive parameters could be potential candidates for inclusion in chronic pain assessments. CONCLUSIONS We found that individuals with chronic pain were more driven by rewards and less consistent when making decisions in our lab-in-the-field experiment. In this case study, it was demonstrated that compared to standard statistical summaries of behavioral performance, computational approaches offered superior ability to resolve, understand and explain the differences in decision- making behavior in the context of chronic pain outside the lab.

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The Impact of Social Media Use on Consumers’ Restaurant Consumption Experiences: A Qualitative Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13126581 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (12) ◽

pp. 6581

Author(s):

Jooyoung Hwang ◽

Anita Eves ◽

Jason L. Stienmetz

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Media ◽

Selection Process ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

High Standards ◽

Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Search For Information ◽

The Impact

Travellers have high standards and regard restaurants as important travel attributes. In the tourism and hospitality industry, the use of developed tools (e.g., smartphones and location-based tablets) has been popularised as a way for travellers to easily search for information and to book venues. Qualitative research using semi-structured interviews based on the face-to-face approach was adopted for this study to examine how consumers’ restaurant selection processes are performed with the utilisation of social media on smartphones. Then, thematic analysis was adopted. The findings of this research show that the adoption of social media on smartphones is positively related with consumers’ gratification. More specifically, when consumers regard that process, content and social gratification are satisfied, their intention to adopt social media is fulfilled. It is suggested by this study that consumers’ restaurant decision-making process needs to be understood, as each stage of the decision-making process is not independent; all the stages of the restaurant selection process are organically connected and influence one another.

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Movie Recommendation through Multiple Bias Analysis

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11062817 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 2817

Author(s):

Tae-Gyu Hwang ◽

Sung Kwon Kim

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Recommender System ◽

Real World ◽

Matrix Factorization ◽

User Preferences ◽

Improve Performance ◽

Bias Analysis ◽

Useful Knowledge ◽

Existing Problems ◽

Movie Recommendation

A recommender system (RS) refers to an agent that recommends items that are suitable for users, and it is implemented through collaborative filtering (CF). CF has a limitation in improving the accuracy of recommendations based on matrix factorization (MF). Therefore, a new method is required for analyzing preference patterns, which could not be derived by existing studies. This study aimed at solving the existing problems through bias analysis. By analyzing users’ and items’ biases of user preferences, the bias-based predictor (BBP) was developed and shown to outperform memory-based CF. In this paper, in order to enhance BBP, multiple bias analysis (MBA) was proposed to efficiently reflect the decision-making in real world. The experimental results using movie data revealed that MBA enhanced BBP accuracy, and that the hybrid models outperformed MF and SVD++. Based on this result, MBA is expected to improve performance when used as a system in related studies and provide useful knowledge in any areas that need features that can represent users.

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Real‐world evidence to support regulatory decision making: New or expanded medical product indications

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety ◽

10.1002/pds.5222 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica M. Franklin ◽

Kai‐Li Liaw ◽

Solomon Iyasu ◽

Cathy Critchlow ◽

Nancy Dreyer

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Real World ◽

Medical Product ◽

Regulatory Decision ◽

Real World Evidence

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Playing videogames or using social media applications on smartphones causes mental fatigue and impairs decision-making performance in amateur boxers

Applied Neuropsychology Adult ◽

10.1080/23279095.2021.1927036 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Leonardo Sousa Fortes ◽

Petrus Gantois ◽

Dalton de Lima-Júnior ◽

Bruno Teixeira Barbosa ◽

Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Media ◽

Mental Fatigue ◽

Media Applications

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COVID-19, Social Media, and the Role of the Public Physician

Blood Purification ◽

10.1159/000512707 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Joel M. Topf ◽

Paul N. Williams

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Real World ◽

The Public ◽

Large Segment ◽

Core Part ◽

Audience Size

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an avalanche of information, much of it false or misleading. Social media posts with misleading or dangerous opinions and analyses are often amplified by celebrities and social media influencers; these posts have contributed substantially to this avalanche of information. An emerging force in this information infodemic is public physicians, doctors who view a public presence as a large segment of their mission. These physicians bring authority and real-world experience to the COVID-19 discussion. To investigate the role of public physicians, we interviewed a convenience cohort of physicians who have played a role in the infodemic. We asked the physicians about how their roles have changed, how their audience has changed, what role politics plays, and how they address misinformation. The physicians noted increased audience size with an increased focus on the pandemic. Most avoided confronting politics, but others found it unavoidable or that even if they tried to avoide it, it would be brought up by their audience. The physicians felt that confronting and correcting misinformation was a core part of their mission. Public physicians on social media are a new occurrence and are an important part of fighting online misinformation.

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