Approaching Grizzly Bears in Yellowstone National Park: The Role of Context, Individual Differences, and Decision-Making Factors

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

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Microstructure of high-temperature (>73 °C) siliceous sinter deposited around hot springs and geysers, Yellowstone National Park: the role of biological and abiological processes in sedimentation

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e03-066 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 40 (11) ◽

pp. 1611-1642 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Donald R Lowe ◽

Deena Braunstein

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Yellowstone National Park ◽

National Park ◽

Hot Springs ◽

Strain Effect ◽

Temperature Sinter ◽

Architectural Features ◽

Siliceous Sinter ◽

High Temperature Sinter

Slightly alkaline hot springs and geysers in Yellowstone National Park exhibit distinctive assemblages of high-temperature (>73 °C) siliceous sinter reflecting local hydrodynamic conditions. The main depositional zones include subaqueous pool and channel bottoms and intermittently wetted subaerial splash, surge, and overflow areas. Subaqueous deposits include particulate siliceous sediment and dendritic and microbial silica framework. Silica framework forms thin, porous, microbe-rich films coating subaqueous surfaces. Spicules with intervening narrow crevices dominate in splash zones. Surge and overflow deposits include pool and channel rims, columns, and knobs. In thin section, subaerial sinter is composed of (i) dark brown, nearly opaque laminated sinter deposited on surfaces that evaporate to dryness; (ii) clear translucent silica deposited subaqueously through precipitation driven by supersaturation; (iii) heterogeneous silica representing silica-encrusted microbial filaments and detritus; and (iv) sinter debris. Brownish laminations form the framework of most sinter deposited in surge and overflow zones. Pits and cavities are common architectural features of subaerial sinter and show concave-upward pseudo-cross-laminations and micro-unconformities developed through migration. Marked birefringence of silica deposited on surfaces that evaporate to dryness is probably a strain effect. Repeated wetting and evaporation, often to dryness, and capillary effects control the deposition, morphology, and microstructure of most high-temperature sinter outside of the fully subaqueous zone. Microbial filaments are abundant on and within high-temperature sinter but do not provide the main controls on morphology or structuring except in biofilms developed on subaqueous surfaces. Millimetre-scale lamination cyclicity in much high-temperature sinter represents annual layering and regular seasonal fluctuations in silica sedimentation.

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Preservation and Management of Grizzly Bears in Yellowstone National Park

BioScience ◽

10.2307/1295812 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 21 (16) ◽

pp. 858-864 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Glen F. Cole

Keyword(s):

Yellowstone National Park ◽

National Park ◽

Grizzly Bears

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Exploring the role of decision-making factors in international student marketing engagement

Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION ◽

10.1080/08841241.2019.1638483 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 230-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thuy Nguyen ◽

Qin Sun ◽

Gopala Ganesh

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

International Student ◽

Decision Making Factors

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Beyond Logic and Intuition: Development and Validation of a Career Discernment Scale

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/0894845319897824 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 089484531989782

Author(s):

Jeffrey Yip ◽

Haoxiong Li ◽

Ellen A. Ensher ◽

Susan E. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Past Research ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Internal Reliability ◽

Advice Seeking ◽

Decision Making Factors

Past research on career decision-making has focused on two distinct modes of decision-making: logic and intuition. In this study, we extend that two-system model of career decision-making and examine the role of two additional decision-making modalities: advice seeking and spiritual discernment. We conducted two independent studies through which we develop and validate a Career Discernment Scale by examining its dimensions and internal reliability (Study 1), followed by research to establish discriminant and convergent validity (Study 2). Results provide initial support for the dimensionality and reliability of four distinct career decision-making factors, demonstrated by a clear factor structure and internal consistency. In addition, our results show evidence of convergent and discriminant validity through expected correlations across a nomological network of individual differences. Overall, this article highlights the unique role of spirituality and advice seeking in career decision-making with implications for career development and practice.

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Individual Differences in Pilot Performance

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193127602001704 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 20 (17) ◽

pp. 403-409

Author(s):

Miles R. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Pilot Performance ◽

Research Areas ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Research Decision ◽

Glide Slope ◽

Pilot Behavior

Selected literature on individual differences in pilot performance is reviewed in order to indicate a possible direction for research. Decision-making performance in contingency situations is seen as a potentially fruitful area for study of individual differences, although information on the relative roles of experience and cognitive abilities, styles, and strategies are needed in all research areas. The role of cognitive styles in pilot performance is essentially unexplored; however, the identification of individual pilot behavior differences that have been attributed to style differences and the results of automobile driver behavior research suggest considerable potential. Approaches to studying pilot decision-making processes are discussed, with emphasis given to the wrong-model approach in which accident and incident data, or “process tracing” provide experimental computational structures. Analysis of data from a simulator experiment on V/STOL zero-visibility landing performance suggests that the order of ranking of individual pilot's effectiveness varies with particular situations defined by combinations of tracking requirements (e.g., glide slope, localizer) and glide-slope segment, or speed requirements; the data are being further analyzed.

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Role of smectite in siliceous-sinter formation and microbial-texture preservation: Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Clays and Clay Minerals ◽

10.1346/ccmn.2007.0550208 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 189-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jennifer E. Kyle ◽

Paul A. Schroeder

Keyword(s):

Yellowstone National Park ◽

National Park ◽

Siliceous Sinter ◽

Texture Preservation

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The Relevance of Marketing Mix and Service Quality on Students' Decision-Making Factors Regarding Higher Education and Satisfaction

10.31227/osf.io/6hsqr ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Bakhtiar Tijjang ◽

Jeni Kamase ◽

Ilham Labbase ◽

Annas Plyriadi

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Service Quality ◽

Student Satisfaction ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Marketing Mix ◽

Study Program ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Decision Making Factors ◽

New Students

This study conducted aims to examine and analyze the relevance of marketing mix and service quality on the students decision-making, the relevance of marketing mix, service quality on student satisfaction and the effect over decisions related on student satisfaction and the relevance of marketing mix and service quality on student satisfaction as a mediating role of students decision-making. Population in this study were all a new students in the study program management, education level of Bachelor degree of the academic year 2015/2016 in Makassar. There are 381 students were used as samples. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with support Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS). This study provides findings that the marketing mix and service quality has a significant effect on students decision-making, marketing mix does not directly effect in student satisfaction, services quality and student’s decision-making has a significant on student satisfaction. Marketing mix and service quality has a significant effect on student satisfaction as a mediating role of student’s decision-making. These findings explain that the marketing mix directly affects decision-making, but has no direct effect on satisfaction; marketing mix can affect satisfaction if supported by the student’s decision-making. Service quality affects directly and indirectly on satisfaction as a mediating role of decision-making.

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