Sökning: "Gustav Tinghög"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gustav Tinghög.
1. The Art of Saying No : The Economics and Ethics of Healthcare Rationing
Sammanfattning : It follows from resource scarcity that some form of healthcare rationing is unavoidable. This implies that potentially beneficial medical treatments must be denied to patients to avoid unacceptable sacrifices in other areas of society. LÄS MER
2. Deciding Fast and Slow : How Intuitive and Reflective Thinking Influence Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Paper I “Intuition and cooperation reconsidered”: Does intuition make people more cooperative? Rand et al. (Rand, Greene, & Nowak, 2012) reported increased cooperation in social dilemmas after forcing individuals to decide quickly. LÄS MER
3. Norms in Prosocial Decisions : The Role of Observability, Avoidance, and Conditionality
Sammanfattning : Prosocial behaviors benefit other people and range from donations to charity to behavior limiting the spread of disease, such as masking and vaccination. The overarching purpose of this thesis was to contribute to our understanding of how social norms and conformity affect prosocial behavior. LÄS MER
4. Moral Illusions
Sammanfattning : Just as optical illusions can trick our visual senses, our moral sense can be misguided by moral illusions. In this thesis, I investigate whether moral illusions can arise from mental shortcuts (availability bias), cognitive biases (attribution bias), contextual factors (possibility to avoid information), and decision rules (democratic decision-making). LÄS MER
5. Pain, Touch, and Decision Making : Behavioral and Brain Responses to Affective Somatosensory Stimulation
Sammanfattning : Stimulation of sensory nerves can give rise to powerful affective experiences. Noxious stimuli can give rise to pain, an unpleasant experience which, in turn, causes suffering and constitutes a major societal burden. Touch, on the other hand, can feel pleasant and plays an important role in social relationships and well-being. LÄS MER