A psychometric analysis of the "divide and conquer" principle in multicriteria decision making
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The simple multiattribute rating technique with swing weights (SMARTS) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) revealed that decision complexity has no marked effect on the relationship between decompositional and holistic judgements for both SMARTS and AHP judgements. An ordinal evaluation of temporal stability revealed the violation of decision and conquer (DAC) for the AHP judgements. A linear measure, meanwhile, revealed that the projected impact of decision complexity on the DAC principle was violated for the SMART judgements.
Publication Name: Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-5978
Year: 1998
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Social norms and cooperation in social dilemmas: the effects of context and feedback
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Individuals tend to be more competitive in making decisions over social dilemmas that involve economic context, than those who are confronted with noneconomic decisions. An analysis involving 195 undergraduate students revealed that people are likely to compete and cooperate more during events when prior contenders competed unexpectedly in the same situation. It was further established that competitive behavior manifested in noneconomic decisions generates considerable effect on subsequent behavior.
Publication Name: Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-5978
Year: 1999
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A probabilistic model of criticality in a sequential public good dilemma
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A proposed probabilistic model of criticality weakens the belief that individuals are completely rational, assuming that individuals contribute probabilistically as a function of their perceived criticality. Perfect rationality is an unrealistic demand on human behaviors, therefore, deterministic predictions of the probabilistic criticality model are less acceptable than stochastic predictions.
Publication Name: Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-5978
Year: 1998
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