Decision Making
About Decision making in natural environments
We are particularly interested in decisions as they unfold in real life messy environments. We thus have a focus on the process of decision making (using, among other techniques, eye tracking), on complex choice sets, and situations decision makers have some familiarity with.
Generalizabilty
Decision processes are to a large extent shaped by the features of the choice situation. If you only have two options to choose between, these will, by necessity be the only ones that require your attention. When choosing among the abundance of options found in, for instance, a supermarket, the need to quickly dismiss parts of the available options – or to quickly identify the most relevant parts of the choice set become necessary.
Many important decisions are made in settings decision makers have some familiarity with. These are decisions made in everyday life, or in their employment. It is reasonable to assume that we, when we have the chance, to, fine-tune the way regularly occurring decisions are made.
Applicability
If we want to support, or improve decisions, this is most reasonably done in the settings in which they matter the most, or the settings in which they are regularly done.
Decision making in professional contexts
- Dewitt, B., Persson, J., Wahlberg, L., & Wallin, A. (2021). The epistemic roles of clinical expertise: An empirical study of how Swedish healthcare professionals understand proven experience. PLoS ONE, 16(6): e0252160. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252160
Journal paper (PLOS) - Wallin, A. (2021). Okunskap och riskkommunikation: Att knuffa eller ge en karta. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 123(5), 213–222. URL: https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/23308 Journal paper (Lund University Libraries)
- Pärnamets, P., Tagesson, A., & Wallin, A. (2020). Inconsistencies in repeated refugee status decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33(5), 569 578. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2176 Journal paper (Wiley Online Library)
- Sahlin, N.-E., Dewitt, B., Persson, J., Wahlberg, L., & Wallin, A. (2020). Så uppfattar tandläkare beprövad erfarenhet: Några resultat från en enkätstudie. Tandläkartidningen, 2020(6), 50 54. URL: https://www.tandlakartidningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Sahlin-et-al_Webbversion.pdf
Journal paper (Tandläkartidningen) - Sahlin, N.-E., Wahlberg, L., Dewitt, B., Persson, J., & Wallin, A. (2020). Varför uppfattar tandläkare beprövad erfarenhet som de gör? Uppföljning av resultatet från enkätstudien. Tandläkartidningen, 112, 58&ndash61. URL: https://www.tandlakartidningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sahlin-et-al.pdf Journal paper (Tandläkartidningen)
- Wallin, A., Wahlberg, L., Persson, J., & Dewitt, B. (2020). “Science and proven experience”: How should the epistemology of medicine inform the regulation of healthcare?. Health Policy, 124(8), 842 848. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.05.005. Journal paper (ScienceDirect)
- Persson, J., Vareman, N., Wallin, A., Wahlberg, L., & Sahlin, NE. (2019). Science and proven experience: A Swedish variety of evidence based medicine and a way to better risk analysis?. Journal of Risk Research, 22(7), 833 843. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2017.1409251 Journal paper (Taylor & Francis Online)
Decision making in everyday life situations
- Gidlöf, K., Stoltenberg Lahm, E., Wallin, A. & Otterbring, T. (2021). Eco depletion : The impact of hunger on prosociality by means of environmentally friendly attitudes and behavior. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 62, Article: 102654. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102654.
Journal paper (ScienceDirect) - Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B., Wallin, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2020). The Missing Link Between Memory and Reinforcement Learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article: 560080. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560080 Journal paper (Frontiers)
- Bruine de Bruin, W., Wallin, A., Parker, A., Strough, J. & Hamner, J. (2017). Effects of anti- vs. pro-vaccine narratives on responses by recipients varying in numeracy : A cross-sectional survey-based experiment. Medical Decision Making, 37(8), 860–870. DOI: 10.1177/0272989X17704858 Journal paper (SAGE Journals)
- Gidlöf, K., Anikin, A., Lingonblad, M. & Wallin, A. (2017). Looking is buying. How visual attention and choice are affected by consumer preferences and properties of the supermarket shelf. Appetite, 116, 29–38. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.04.020 Journal paper (ScienceDirect).