The Effect of Outcome Information on the Evaluation and Recall of Individuals' Own Decisions

Decision‐making competence: External validation through an individual‐differences approach

“…(1993), Fischhoff (1992Fischhoff ( , 1996, Fischhoff et al (1998), Hogarth and Kunreuther (1995), and Jones et al (1997).…”

“…As a set of learned skills, DMC should be fostered by a positive developmental environment, defined as one providing pertinent feedback and modeling (Parrill-Burnstein, 1978;Baron & Hershey, 1988;Jones et al, 1997). Conversely, a critical or inconsistent home environment may undermine young people's confidence in their decision-making abilities (Institute of Medicine, 1999).…”

The effect of outcome information on doctors' evaluations of their own diagnostic decisions

“…Secondly, the decision maker may lack some important piece of information: if a crucial piece of information is not available, even the best probability estimation can go amiss, without implying that the decision process itself is faulty. Accordingly, information about the outcome, although correlated to the quality of the decision, is not a perfect tool with which to evaluate the decision 2 . In order to judge a decision fairly, evaluators should use, as much as possible, knowledge about the information available to the decision maker at the moment the decision was taken 2–4 …”

On the Assessment of Decision Quality: Considerations Regarding Utility, Conflict and Accountability

“…they tend to focus on the outcome rather than the process (Baron & Hershey, 1988;Jones, Yurak & Frisch, 1997). Referring to an operation as successful after the patient has died remains unsatisfactory for most laypersons.…”