scholarly journals From Theory to Praxis: ‘Go Sustainable Living’ Survey for Exploring Individuals Consciousness Level of Decision-Making and Action-Taking in Daily Life Towards a Green Citizenship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Triantafyllidou ◽  
Anastasia Zabaniotou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
Action Taking

scholarly journals The IM Decision Making And Problem-Solving Model: A Unisex Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Suleiman Yahaya ◽  
Maryam M.B Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Development ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Fast Decision

This paper The search paper aimed at introducing new development in decision-making and problem-solving models which will enable the decision-makers to have more options on the way of handling any give scenarios that might occur in the process of daily life or organizational activities, this will improve fast decision by individual or organization. Decision making is an acceptable part of human daily life. People have to make different important decisions nearly every day, hence the reason that often-making decisions can be a difficult action to take. However, a significant number of observational studies have shown that most individuals are much worse in decision-making in organizations. Thus, people started paying more attention to learning how to make an acceptable decision through the related hypotheses and models that fit their scenarios. Along with the line hundred (100) sample of the design developed model with a Likert-Scale from 1-5 was attached and sent to some prominent leaders who virtually make a decision and solved problems almost every day, for their assessment’s/analysis in order to collect data to determine both input and output of the developed model which some accepted as it was designed while some make changes and other make a recommendation for future research work. The decision-making tools are needed at the critical time of Covid.

scholarly journals Artificial Minds with Consciousness and Common sense Aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 1430-1449
Author(s):  
K.R. Shylaja ◽  
M.V. Vijayakumar ◽  
E. Vani Prasad ◽  
Darryl N. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Level ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
The Common

The research work presented in this article investigates and explains the conceptual mechanisms of consciousness and common-sense thinking of animates. These mechanisms are computationally simulated on artificial agents as strategic rules to analyze and compare the performance of agents in critical and dynamic environments. Awareness and attention to specific parameters that affect the performance of agents specify the consciousness level in agents. Common sense is a set of beliefs that are accepted to be true among a group of agents that are engaged in a common purpose, with or without self-experience. The common sense agents are a kind of conscious agents that are given with few common sense assumptions. The so-created environment has attackers with dependency on agents in the survival-food chain. These attackers create a threat mental state in agents that can affect their conscious and common sense behaviors. The agents are built with a multi-layer cognitive architecture COCOCA (Consciousness and Common sense Cognitive Architecture) with five columns and six layers of cognitive processing of each precept of an agent. The conscious agents self-learn strategies for threat management and energy level maintenance. Experimentation conducted in this research work demonstrates animate-level intelligence in their problem-solving capabilities, decision making and reasoning in critical situations.

scholarly journals Rational and irrational processes in decision making: An economic perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Maria Liana Lacatus
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Economic Understanding

The paper presents important issues of decision making processes with an emphasis on rational and irrational components of these processes. After a short introduction outlining the need for a deeper understanding of rational and non-rational factors that affect the decisions people make, the rationality of people decisions in daily life is questioned and the role of non-rational factors such as intuition are analyzed. The economic understanding of the decision making process is presented and principles of rational decision-making are explained. Different methods used and recommended by economists in order to make decisions are presented and applied in different life situations in order to demonstrate their value in daily life. Special emphasis is put on factors such as imperfect information, illusion of control, or risk aversion that may affect the rationality of the decision making processes. In the final section of the paper the concept of bounded rationality is introduced and explained along with new theories in economics that are challenging the classic economic perspective on the decision making process

scholarly journals Participation in decision-making processes of community development agents: a study from Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Quiroz-Niño ◽  
Francisco J Blanco-Encomienda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Development Agents ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Abstract This article argues that although Civil Social Organizations aspire towards a culture of participatory process-driven governance and management, the reality seems far from this aspiration. A culture of participatory processes is understood in this study as working and decisional engagement practices which are part of internal decision-making and action-taking processes from Community Development Agents (CDAs). This brings an ethical dilemma, as these organizations claim to operate upon principles of participation, solidarity, democracy, social justice, human dignity and decent work. Through this study, 506 Peruvian CDAs offered their own analyses about the factors that foster and/or inhibit their participation in specific organizational managerial and professional developmental areas, such as: systemic planning, organization, sustainable management and empowerment. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was used to gain a comprehensive understanding of the field of study. Dialogical focus groups were applied, by which CDAs themselves identified and deconstructed the inhibiting and facilitating factors. The study echoes CDAs’ aspiration to engage meaningfully with decision-making and action-taking processes as well as creating the participatory mechanisms and processes themselves. In order to do this, CDAs demand an ethical and democratic competence-based training, to empower them to democratize their organizational structures and to counterbalance their daily power relations and dynamics.

scholarly journals Patients experiences with multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapies in daily life – a qualitative interview study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sippel ◽  
Karin Riemann-Lorenz ◽  
Jutta Scheiderbauer ◽  
Ingo Kleiter ◽  
Rebecca Morrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Disease Modifying Therapies ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Relapsing Remitting ◽  
Disease Modifying ◽  
Remitting Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Abstract Background Besides coping with a disease with many uncertainties, people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis face complex decisions concerning disease-modifying therapies (DMTs). In an interview study, we aimed to assess patients’ experiences with DMTs. Methods Problem-centred interviews were conducted with 50 people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in Germany using maximum variation sampling and covering all licensed DMTs. Data were analysed thematically using deductive and inductive categories. Results 47 of 50 patients had treatment with at least one of the approved DMTs. The main themes were: (1) starting a DMT, (2) switching to another DMT, (3) discontinuing a DMT, and (4) multiple sclerosis without starting a DMT. Different intercorrelated factors influenced the decision-making processes for or against a DMT. Individual experiences with DMTs in daily life contained the effort in administration, success, and failure of DMTs, coping strategies and well-being without DMTs. The decision-making process for or against a DMT and the use of those treatments can be understood as a constant, continually shifting process, complicated by different factors, which change over time. Experiences with DMTs were characterized by attempts to handle uncertainty and to (re)gain control and integrate adaptivity into one’s life. Conclusions The study provides a rich and nuanced amount of patients’ experiences with DMTs. The findings demonstrate the importance for practitioners to look at current life circumstances of patients with multiple sclerosis when recommending a DMT and to promote and enable patients to make informed decisions.

scholarly journals Communication speeds up but impairs the consensus decision in a dyadic colour estimation task

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 191974
Author(s):  
Liutao Yu ◽  
Chundi Wang ◽  
Si Wu ◽  
Da-Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Consensus Formation ◽  
Exact Role ◽  
Estimation Task ◽  
Consensus Decision Making ◽  
Consensus Decision ◽  
Better Than

Communication plays an important role in consensus decision-making which pervades our daily life. However, the exact role of communication in consensus formation is not clear. Here, to study the effects of communication on consensus formation, we designed a dyadic colour estimation task, where a pair of isolated participants repeatedly estimated the colours of discs until they reached a consensus or completed eight estimations, either with or without communication. We show that participants’ estimates gradually approach each other, reaching towards a consensus, and these are enhanced with communication. We also show that dyadic consensus estimation is on average better than individual estimation. Surprisingly, consensus estimation without communication generally outperforms that with communication, indicating that communication impairs the improvement of consensus estimation. However, without communication, it takes longer to reach a consensus. Moreover, participants who partially cooperate with each other tend to result in better overall consensus. Taken together, we have identified the effect of communication on the dynamics of consensus formation, and the results may have implications on group decision-making in general.

“The Right to Make Choices”: The National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making

Inclusion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Blanck ◽  
Jonathan G. Martinis
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Resource

Abstract Research shows that self-determination and the right to make life choices are key elements for a meaningful and independent life. Yet, older adults and people with disabilities are often placed in overly broad and restrictive guardianships, denying them their right to make daily life choices about where they live and who they interact with, their finances, and their health care. Supported decision-making (SDM)—where people use trusted friends, family members, and professionals to help them understand the situations and choices they face, so they may make their own decisions—is a means for increasing self-determination by encouraging and empowering people to make decisions about their lives to the maximum extent possible. This article examines the implications of overly broad guardianship and the potential for supported decision-making to address such circumstances. It introduces the National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making as one means to advance the use of supported decision-making and increase self-determination.

scholarly journals A Review of ‘Brain Computation as Hierarchical Abstraction’

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-300
Author(s):  
Bodo Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Computational Neuroscience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Computational Aspects ◽  
Hierarchical Abstraction ◽  
The Brain

AbstractThis article is a review of the book ‘Brain Computation As Hierarchical Abstraction’ by Dana H. Ballard published by MIT press in 2015. The book series computational neuroscience familiarizes the reader with the computational aspects of brain functions based on neuroscientific evidence. It provides an excellent introduction of the functioning, i.e. the structure, the network and the routines of the brain in our daily life. The final chapters even discuss behavioral elements such as decision-making, emotions and consciousness. These topics are of high relevance in other sciences such as economics and philosophy. Overall, Ballard’s book stimulates a scientifically well-founded debate and, more importantly, reveals the need of an interdisciplinary dialogue towards social sciences.

scholarly journals Continuous track paths reveal additive evidence integration in multistep decision making

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (40) ◽  
pp. 10618-10623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Buc Calderon ◽  
Myrtille Dewulf ◽  
Wim Gevers ◽  
Tom Verguts
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Reaching Task ◽  
Decision Dynamics ◽  
Probabilistic Evidence ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Initial Dip ◽  
Future Outcomes ◽  
Evidence Integration

Multistep decision making pervades daily life, but its underlying mechanisms remain obscure. We distinguish four prominent models of multistep decision making, namely serial stage, hierarchical evidence integration, hierarchical leaky competing accumulation (HLCA), and probabilistic evidence integration (PEI). To empirically disentangle these models, we design a two-step reward-based decision paradigm and implement it in a reaching task experiment. In a first step, participants choose between two potential upcoming choices, each associated with two rewards. In a second step, participants choose between the two rewards selected in the first step. Strikingly, as predicted by the HLCA and PEI models, the first-step decision dynamics were initially biased toward the choice representing the highest sum/mean before being redirected toward the choice representing the maximal reward (i.e., initial dip). Only HLCA and PEI predicted this initial dip, suggesting that first-step decision dynamics depend on additive integration of competing second-step choices. Our data suggest that potential future outcomes are progressively unraveled during multistep decision making.

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