A matter of perspective

Zikmund‐Fisher, Brian J.; Sarr, Brianna; Fagerlin, Angela; Ubel, Peter A.

doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00410.x

Cited by 168 publications

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“…Although effect sizes for our findings were small (Cohen, 1988), they were consistent across the three experiments. These findings are also consistent with previous work examining imaginary economic judgments for the self (Horowitz & McConnell, 2002;Votinov et al, 2010) and others (Morewedge et al 2009;Zikmund-Fisher et al, 2006). Of interest, in two of our three experiments, we also found that participants valued objects owned by their close others more than objects they themselves owned.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…However, this increased level of risk aversion may occur only for low-impact decisions. In fact, the self-other difference in risk aversion may be reversed for high-impact decisions such as those involving health (Fernandez-Duque & Wifall, 2007;Stone, Choi, de Bruin, & Mandel, 2013;Zikmund-Fisher, Sarr, Fagerlin, & Ubel, 2006).…”

Section: Decision Making For Othersmentioning

confidence: 97%

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My Mug Is Valuable, But My Partner's Is Even More So: Economic Decisions for Close Others

Greenstein

2015

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Decision Making For Othersmentioning

confidence: 97%

My Mug Is Valuable, But My Partner's Is Even More So: Economic Decisions for Close Others

Greenstein

2015

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

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“…A future direction would be to investigate how medical decisions are and should be negotiated within families, for example, to minimize the negative emotional impact the choice and the choice outcomes have on all family members. This line of research would tap not only into the literature on shared decision making about health [30]–[32], but also into the more recent studies reporting systematic differences between the treatment choice one recommends for another person vs. makes for oneself (see [23], [33]). How can we better involve minors and their families in the process of making medical decisions?…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Braving Difficult Choices Alone: Children's and Adolescents' Medical Decision Making

2014

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ObjectiveWhat role should minors play in making medical decisions? The authors examined children's and adolescents' desire to be involved in serious medical decisions and the emotional consequences associated with them.MethodsSixty-three children and 76 adolescents were presented with a cover story about a difficult medical choice. Participants were tested in one of four conditions: (1) own informed choice; (2) informed parents' choice to amputate; (3) informed parents' choice to continue a treatment; and (4) uninformed parents' choice to amputate. In a questionnaire, participants were asked about their choices, preference for autonomy, confidence, and emotional reactions when faced with a difficult hypothetical medical choice.ResultsChildren and adolescents made different choices and participants, especially adolescents, preferred to make the difficult choice themselves, rather than having a parent make it. Children expressed fewer negative emotions than adolescents. Providing information about the alternatives did not affect participants' responses.ConclusionsMinors, especially adolescents, want to be responsible for their own medical decisions, even when the choice is a difficult one. For the adolescents, results suggest that the decision to be made, instead of the agent making the decision, is the main element influencing their emotional responses and decision confidence. For children, results suggest that they might be less able than adolescents to project how they would feel. The results, overall, draw attention to the need to further investigate how we can better involve minors in the medical decision-making process.

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“…Research in the broader field of decision-making indicates that individuals make systematically different choices when asked to advise or decide for another than to decide for themselves (Beisswanger et al, 2003;Zikmund-Fisher et al, 2006), including displaying fewer cognitive biases when deciding for others (Ubel, Angott, & Zikmund-Fisher, 2011) and placing greater weight on the most important factors in the decision (Kray & Gonzalez, 1999).…”

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If all your friends jumped off a bridge: The effect of others’ actions on engagement in and recommendation of risky behaviors.

Helfinstein¹,

Mumford²,

Poldrack³

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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There is a large gap between the types of risky behavior we recommend to others and those we engage in ourselves. In this study, we hypothesized that a source of this gap is greater reliance on information about others' behavior when deciding whether to take a risk oneself than when deciding whether to recommend it to others. To test this hypothesis, we asked participants either to report their willingness to engage in a series of risky behaviors themselves; their willingness to recommend those behaviors to a loved one; or, how good of an idea it would be for either them or a loved one to engage in the behaviors. We then asked them to evaluate those behaviors on criteria related to the expected utility of the risk (benefits, costs, and likelihood of costs), and on engagement in the activity by people they knew. We found that, after accounting for effects of perceived benefit, cost, and likelihood of cost, perceptions of others' behavior had a dramatically larger impact on participants' willingness to engage in a risk than on their willingness to recommend the risk or their prescriptive evaluation of the risk. These findings indicate that the influence of others' choices on risk-taking behavior is large, direct, cannot be explained by an economic utility model of risky decision-making, and goes against one's own better judgment.

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A matter of perspective

Cited by 168 publications

References 30 publications

My Mug Is Valuable, But My Partner's Is Even More So: Economic Decisions for Close Others

My Mug Is Valuable, But My Partner's Is Even More So: Economic Decisions for Close Others

Braving Difficult Choices Alone: Children's and Adolescents' Medical Decision Making

If all your friends jumped off a bridge: The effect of others’ actions on engagement in and recommendation of risky behaviors.

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