Journal article
Risky Decision Making and Allocation of Resources for Leukemia and AIDS Programs
Health psychology, Vol.12(2), pp.110-117
03/01/1993
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.12.2.110
PMID: 8500437
Abstract
Traditional judgment and decision-making paradigms were expanded to include differential reactions to persons with leukemia or AIDS. Experiments 1 and 2 adopted Tversky and Kahneman's risky-decision-making task and found support for different value functions for the 2 patient groups when choosing between treatment programs. From these results, the subjective value of saving a fixed number of lives appears to be greater for persons with leukemia than for persons with AIDS. Experiment 3 provided additional data concerning differential perceptions of the causes of AIDS. This proved to be a useful means of classifying Ss who did and did not devalue the lives of persons with AIDS.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Risky Decision Making and Allocation of Resources for Leukemia and AIDS Programs
- Creators
- Irwin P Levin - University of IowaDaniel P Chapman - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health psychology, Vol.12(2), pp.110-117
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-6133.12.2.110
- PMID
- 8500437
- NLM abbreviation
- Health Psychol
- ISSN
- 0278-6133
- eISSN
- 1930-7810
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1993
- Academic Unit
- Marketing; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984963203202771
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