Intuitive Decision Research Articles

Evaluation of research methodology in construction, productivity research

The article is aimed at considering the content of a large number of published works in the field of construction research and construction productivity, and at deriving an optimal model of construction research methodology based on the works examined. A particularly important issue is also the introduction of modern thinking with a discussion of the consequences for modern researchers.
 Articles published in both construction journals and broader management scientific journals were analyzed. Three broad classifications were used to summarize the methodologies adopted in the documents: qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods. The research taxonomy also identified three main areas based on the research focus of each study: archival research, empirical research, and modeling proposals.
 In terms of the methodological structure followed, three main categories were recognized: experimental frameworks, data collection methods, and modeling proposals. Based on the results of the assessment, a methodological base was developed and its implementation in a real research project was illustrated. The main conclusion is that the choice of research methodology in published journal articles was an intuitive decision, mainly related to the ontological and epistemological position of the researcher. However, it is also possible to offer general guidance on the choice of the most appropriate methodology regarding the objectives and objectives of the study.
 Particular attention is paid to research related to the construction productivity CP. The CP field is an expedient area of study, since the complex and multifaceted nature of the subject led to the implementation of several methodological approaches. Thus, this study considers different points of view to measure or estimate construction performance.

Joint Inventory and Scheduling Control in a Repair Facility

Operations Management in a Repair Facility Capital goods are machines or products that are used in the production of goods or service deliveries. Maintenance service providers keep spare parts on stock so that, whenever a critical component of a capital good breaks down, the broken part is replaced with a spare part to prevent long and costly downtime. In “Joint Inventory and Scheduling Control in a Repair Facility,” Özkan and van Houtum study inventory and repair scheduling decisions of a maintenance service provider for repairable capital goods. In case of a stock-out, the service provider should decide whether to back-order the demand or execute an emergency repair, which is an urgent but expensive repair operation for a broken part. The authors derive a simple and intuitive decision rule stating if the emergency repairs are necessary to achieve a close-to-optimal system performance. Moreover, they propose a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-implement heuristic control policy that performs well in numerical experiments.

Patterns of Teacher Pedagogical Creativity in Cultural Arts and Crafts Subjects in Elementary Schools

This research aims to reveal the creativity of teacher pedagogy with creative and participatory learning in provoking the curiosity, activeness and enthusiasm of students. The application of pedagogical creativity as a search or an effective way to develop pedagogical creativity makes it possible to establish that innovative technologies have great potential in developing pedagogical creativity . Method The qualitative method was chosen to explore and give in-depth meaning to the data obtained and to be able to present more meaningful pedagogic creativity research results. Data analysis used descriptive analysis, starting with grouping the same data, then interpretation was carried out to give meaning to each sub-aspect and the relationship between one another. To carry out an analysis or interpretation of all aspects to understand the meaning of the relationship between one aspect and another which is the focus of further research is interpreted or interpreted. development of pedagogical creativity of teachers and students. The research findings show that many challenges to pedagogical creativity in pedagogical practice are manifested in the pattern of: 1) the effective application by a person of the experiences created in new conditions; 2) in repair known according to the new task; in the development of science and development; 3) in the ability to prove intuitive and pre-prepared decisions; 4) in the ability to dream, see near and distant prospects; 6) in the ability to develop ideas and see a series of options in their decisions; 7) to reveal the unknown regularity of previous training and education; 8) in the ability to conduct experiments, deeper research work. Thus, these findings can become the basis for further studies on improving and creating new approaches to the development of pedagogical creativity in the process of arts and culture craft education.

The intuitive decision preference and EEG features based on commonality heuristic

People tend to make intuitive decisions based on certain heuristics. We have observed that there is an intuitive heuristic that tends to prioritize the most common features as the selection result. In order to study the influence of cognitive limitation and context induction on the intuitive thinking of common items, a questionnaire experiment with multidisciplinary features and similarity associations is designed. The experimental results reveal the existence of three classes of subjects. The behavioral features of Class I subjects show that cognitive limitations and task context fail to induce intuitive decision-making based on common items; instead, they rely heavily on rational analysis. The behavioral features of Class II subjects show a mixture of intuitive decision-making and rational analysis, with priority given to rational analysis. The behavioral features of Class III subjects indicate that the induction of the task context reinforces the reliance on intuitive decision-making. The electroencephalogram (EEG) feature responses (mainly in the β and γ bands) of the three classes of subjects reflect their respective decision-making thinking characteristics. The event-related potential (ERP) results demonstrate that Class III subjects induce a late positive P600 component with a significantly higher average wave amplitude than the other two classes, which may be related to the “oh yes” behavior for the common item intuitive decision method.

Thermal image-based hand gesture recognition for worker-robot collaboration in the construction industry: A feasible study

Worker-robot collaboration (WRC) is a promising solution for complex construction tasks, which can integrate the robots’ advantages in strength and accuracy with human ability in intuitive decision-making and adaptability. A new imperative objective for real-world WRC is to design a user-friendly interface to support safe and efficient worker-robot interactions. Vision-based hand gesture is a simple but effective solution. However, existing methods mainly depend on 3-channel RGB images captured by visible cameras, which are prone to be affected by on-site environmental disturbances, such as poor illumination, fog, and dust. Moreover, previous networks strive for high accuracy, neglecting computational efficiency (e.g., model size and latency) when implementing the network on resource-constrained devices like mobile construction robots. Against this backdrop, this research presented a feasibility study to investigate whether hand signals can be detected from thermal images and designed a lightweight network that has fewer parameters and obtains lower latency without compromising accuracy. Experimental results indicated that thermal images were robust to different lighting conditions, and the proposed model achieved a high classification accuracy (97.54 %) with 1.8 M parameters. The comparative study demonstrated the superiority of our model to other advanced lightweight models, illustrating the feasibility of the developed method in supporting safe WRC applications by recognizing workers’ hand signals.

The translation of conceptual metaphor in political news

Metaphorical expressions (MEs) are abundant in political text and their translation ‎poses challenges particularly for retaining the implicit meaning. This research focuses on examining the use of conceptual metaphors (CMs) ‎in Indonesian ‎political news and their English translation. The objectives ‎ are to identify types and the source domain of CMs and to explain how the CMs are translated.‎ ‎Grounding on mixed-methods, the data were metaphorical expressions in ‎ the Indonesian and English versions of Tempo weekly magazines in April, May, and June in 2021. Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) was ‎applied to determine the metaphoricity of metaphors in the STs and Indonesian dictionary (KBBI) was also employed to avoid intuition ‎decision-making. ‎The results indicate that CMs are commonly used in ‎political news in order to popularize, concretize, and dramatize issues. Structural metaphors are found ‎as the most dominant type and twenty source domains are found ‎in the STs with war metaphor as the most significant domain. In terms of the translation, the study demonstrates that non ‎metaphorical translation is the most frequently used technique to render metaphors ‎into English TT. As a result, the translation reduces the ‎metaphoric function of the original expressions.Keywords: political news, conceptual metaphor, translation technique

The Effect of Technological Stress Dimensions on Employees' Decision-Making Styles and Regulatory Role of Job Insecurity Perception: A Research in The Aviation Sector

The technological stress factor is more evident in the aviation industry, which uses high and rapidly changing technology, especially for technical employees. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of technostress levels of aviation industry employees on their decision-making styles and to analysis the regulatory effects of job insecurity perception, which is of great importance for businesses and employees in this effect. The research universe has been determined as the technical personnel in the airline companies operating in Turkey. In all, 402 questionnaires were considered valid and included in the 25th data analysis of SPSS. It was determined that technological stress was statistically significantly related to rational, intuitive, avoidant and instant decision-making. Meanwhile, each decision-making style and the dimensions of job insecurity perception separately have significant moderator roles. Finally, it was revealed that all technostress dimensions, except for the techno-invasion dimension, were statistically significantly correlated with at least one decision-making style. In the research, suggestions were made for the effects of changes in employee’s decision-making styles and perceptions of job insecurity as a result of the effects of technostress, and the results were tried to be explained with aviation industry dynamics and theoretical literature.

Age-dependent changes in intuitive and deliberative cooperation

Cooperation is one of the most advantageous strategies to have evolved in small- and large-scale human societies, often considered essential to their success or survival. We investigated how cooperation and the mechanisms influencing it change across the lifespan, by assessing cooperative choices from adolescence to old age (12–79 years, N = 382) forcing participants to decide either intuitively or deliberatively through the use of randomised time constraints. As determinants of these choices, we considered participants’ level of altruism, their reciprocity expectations, their optimism, their desire to be socially accepted, and their attitude toward risk. We found that intuitive decision-making favours cooperation, but only from age 20 when a shift occurs: whereas in young adults, intuition favours cooperation, in adolescents it is reflection that favours cooperation. Participants’ decisions were shown to be rooted in their expectations about other people’s cooperative behaviour and influenced by individuals’ level of optimism about their own future, revealing that the journey to the cooperative humans we become is shaped by reciprocity expectations and individual predispositions.

Cooperators Pay More Attention to the Outcome of Mutual Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: Empirical Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study

Based on the dual-process theory, we hypothesized that cooperators in the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game would exhibit intuitive decision-making. We also hypothesized that an experimental manipulation that may prevent intuitive cooperation (in this study, inverting the payoff matrix) would result in more protracted decision-making and thus lower cooperation rates. To examine these hypotheses, we designed an experiment using an eye-tracking device. In one condition, the outcome of mutual cooperation in the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game was presented in the upper left-hand corner explaining the result of mutual cooperation first, as in many previous studies (control condition). To suppress the function of intuitive cooperation, we also set the inverted payoff matrix condition in which the positions of the outcomes of mutual cooperation and mutual non-cooperation in the payoff matrix were inverted, explaining the result of mutual non-cooperation first. Although our results did not show the expected differences between the two conditions, it was suggested that cooperators’ decision-making time was shorter in the control condition and that cooperators consistently paid more attention to the outcome of mutual cooperation regardless of the conditions. These results are discussed in relation to the intuitive cooperation model and the social exchange heuristic.

Countering Negotiation Power Asymmetries by Using the Adjusted Winner Algorithm

One promise of computational decision support is enabling better solutions in interactions and social exchange by supporting human strengths (e.g. intuitive decision-making) with formal procedures. This study investigates whether mathematical post-negotiation procedures can guide parties to an efficient negotiation result and thus overcome the shortcomings of human-only approaches in the situation of power asymmetry. The results show that (a) an increase in power by means of a rise in issue authority for one of the two parties does not lead to an increase in humans’ negotiation efficiency, (b) the use of mathematical post-negotiation procedures eminently improves the overall results and (c) the powerful party is likely to benefit most from applying a neutral post-negotiation procedure. These differences highlight that power in commercial negotiations does not compensate for insufficient negotiation skills or efforts in the empowered party. On the contrary, unbalanced power decreases the likelihood of success. Despite the ability to prevail because of power, the post-negotiation procedure reveals options advantageous for both parties.

What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation

AbstractQuantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This requires methods that justify the attribution of results to the measurands (the entities to be measured, e.g., in individuals) and that make the results' quantitative meaning publicly interpretable (e.g., for decision making). Do rating scales—psychology's primary methods to generate numerical data—meet these criteria? This article summarises selected epistemological and methodological problems of rating scales that arise, amongst others, from the intricacies of language‐based methods and from psychologists' challenges to distinguish their study phenomena from their means of exploring these phenomena. Failure to make this logical distinction entails that disparate scientific activities are conflated, thereby distorting scientific concepts and procedures. Rating scales promote such conflations because they serve both as description of the empirical study system (e.g., behaviours) and as symbolic study system (e.g., data variables), leaving the interpretation of each system and the mapping relations between them to raters' intuitive decisions. Verbal scales, however, have broad semantic fields of meanings, which are context‐sensitive and therefore interpreted differently, and which cannot logically match the quantitative meaning commonly ascribed to the numerical scores derived from them. The ease of using verbal descriptions as means of exploration drew psychologists' attention to the conceptual‐interpretive level, away from their actual study phenomena. This also led them to overlook key elements of data generation and measurement. The pragmatic necessity to analyse rating scores through between‐individual comparisons entailed the erroneous assumption that psychometrics and sample‐level statistics could enable measurement. Improving data analyses, as currently discussed, is therefore insufficient for overcoming psychology's crises of replication, confidence, validity and generalizability. Data generation methods are necessary that make the entire process—from the empirical study phenomena up to the results—fully transparent and traceable. This rigorous analysis of rating scales highlights important steps for future directions.

Reflective-net: learning from explanations

We examine whether data generated by explanation techniques, which promote a process of self-reflection, can improve classifier performance. Our work is based on the idea that humans have the ability to make quick, intuitive decisions as well as to reflect on their own thinking and learn from explanations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the potential of mimicking this process by using explanations generated by explainability methods has been explored. We found that combining explanations with traditional labeled data leads to significant improvements in classification accuracy and training efficiency across multiple image classification datasets and convolutional neural network architectures. It is worth noting that during training, we not only used explanations for the correct or predicted class, but also for other classes. This serves multiple purposes, including allowing for reflection on potential outcomes and enriching the data through augmentation.

Intuitive Decision: When to Begin the Succession Process

Family business succession research usually focuses on the problems that make many companies fail during or as a result of succession, to focus on the individual process of decision making itself is rare. In understanding the phenomenon on the personal level of reality, and understand decision-making process of succession, the decision maker’s thinking process and aspirations have to be taken in consideration. This can lead to uncertainties and errors; decisions are predetermined as being rational human limitations border them. Therefore, aspirations and search rules are adjusted over time in response to experience. Our aim was to search for the understanding of a phenomenon: the succession decision in family businesses, where, based on the survey, we attempted to order their intuitive knowledge and aspirations to surface the aspirations, intuitive knowledge of decision makers, in order to deepen our understanding of the succession decision making phenomenon.

Ethical Decision-Making Model by Hospital Nurses Providing Nursing Care to COVID-19 Patients

Nurses often experience ethical dilemmas in decision-making while providing nursing care to clients, especially COVID-19 patients. This study aimed to identify an ethical decision-making model used by hospital nurses in East Nusa Tenggara (ENT) Province, Indonesia, in providing nursing care to COVID-19 patients. This article is based on a research and development cross-sectional study. The population comprised 330 hospital nurses who provided nursing care to COVID-19 patients in ENT. The sample was derived via two-stage cluster sampling and consisted of 175 respondents. The research was conducted from January to June 2022. The independent variables were consequences of actions, deontological ethics, intuition, and the stigma towards COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, the sub-variables of deontological ethics were generosity, justice, autonomy, honesty, and obedience. Meanwhile, the dependent variable was ethical decision-making. Data was collected using questionnaires as instruments. The authors analyed the data partially with chi-square and simultaneously with multiple logistic regression tests. There were correlations between the consequences of action and ethical decision-making (p=0.003). In addition, there were correlations between generosity, justice, autonomy, honesty, and obedience and ethical decision-making (p=0.001). Furthermore, there was a correlation between intuition and ethical decision-making (p=0.0001). Moreover, there was a correlation between the stigma towards COVID-19 patients and ethical decision-making (p=0.0001). Multiple logistic linear test results showed that the significant variables in the ethical decision-making model were generosity (p=0.0001), autonomy (p=0.0001), justice (p=0.001), and honesty (p=0.0001). In conclusion, generosity, autonomy, justice, and honesty have a 40% influence on ethical decision-making by hospital nurses in East Nusa Tenggara in providing nursing care to COVID-19 patients.

99 + matches but a spark ain’t one: Adverse psychological effects of excessive swiping on dating apps

Studies showed adverse experiences related to the use of dating applications such as Tinder. However, it remains unclear by which mechanism and under which conditions dating app use has undesired effects. As a mechanism, we investigated excessive swiping, operationalized as youth’s mental preoccupation with profile browsing and swiping compulsivity. As moderators, we investigated swiping in assessment (i.e., critically evaluating profiles), and locomotion (i.e., taking intuitive gut decisions) modes. To this end, we surveyed a quota-sample of 464 transition age dating app users (16–25 years old). Moderated mediation analyses showed that dating app use was associated with excessive swiping, which was in turn linked to a) upward social comparison, b) fear of being single, and c) partner choice overload. In conclusion, frequent dating app use was related to undesired outcomes only when it was related to excessive swiping. Neither assessment, nor locomotion mode moderated these relationships; thus, excessive swiping is detrimental for young dating app users’ well-being, no matter how they swipe.

Deciding Alone or with Others: Employment Anxiety and Social Distance Predict Intuitiveness in Career Decision Making

Intuitive career decisions can influence people's career choices and subsequent job competencies, which are related to their development and happiness. There is evidence that both anxiety and social distance influence intuitive career decisions individually, but it is unclear how employment anxiety and social distance influence intuitive career decisions individually and how they interact to influence intuitive career decisions. Drawing on the cognitive-emotional dual-system model, in this study, 298 college students and 386 senior job-seeking students were tested through behavioral experiments and questionnaires, respectively. The results showed that employment anxious individuals have a higher intuitive level in career decision making, and they also have a higher intuitive level when making career decisions for others at a far social distance. In addition, employment anxiety and social distance interact to influence the intuitiveness of career decision making. When making career decisions for themselves and those who are close to them, the increase in employment anxiety will increase the intuitive level. Therefore, in a non-anxious situation, you can make career decisions on your own or get help from someone close to you, but in anxious situations, you can turn to others who are at a far social distance to help make decisions.

A Preliminary Study of Neural Correspondence to Intuitive Binary Decision through Electroencephalography

A Preliminary Study of Neural Correspondence to Intuitive Binary Decision through Electroencephalography

Intuitive decision making predicts satisfaction & happiness with real-world choices

Intuitive decision making predicts satisfaction & happiness with real-world choices

Rational decision making and international educational management

In modern conditions, certain leadership and managerial qualities have to be possessed by graduate and will allow realize creative potential in practical activities successfully. The variability of professionally important qualities of specialists in the social field is related to the complexity and diversity of the functions they perform in the conditions of interaction with different contingents in constantly changing social and professional conditions of activity. The purpose and tasks of the highlighted research are characterized by the manifestation of managerial competence as the basis of the professional activity of a social specialist which is determined by the peculiarities of awareness of the behavior and activity of people in the organization and is part of the sphere of work culture, the culture of professional management activity. Thus, the aim of research is the development of professional managerial skills and thinking, especially intuition as a component of rational and intuitive decision making in context of Educational Management. For achievement the aim with tasks, the set of complementary methods was applied: theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization) were used to find out the state of the problem. Thus, according to research it is obvious that Management is a component of professional competence and requires the identification of effective pedagogical approaches aimed at supporting and developing managerial and leadership positions. A professional leaders, among other positive qualities, have to possess desision-making skills, be able to work in a team, be adapted to changes and social challenges, have the ability to influence other in the direction of achieving a defined goal.

Особливості функціональних завдань офіс-менеджера для стратегічного розвитку підприємства

The article is aimed at disclosing the features and types of managerial decision-making, depending on the tasks assigned to office managers. It is defined that the office manager is the main element of interaction between the management and the entire office team as a whole, which belongs to the tactical level of management. As a result of the study, various functional responsibilities of a professional administrator are disclosed, where the main ones include operational management and ensuring the activities of managerial personnel of an organization. It is substantiated that the main functions of an office manager, on which about 70% of the successful work of the office depends, are the managerial, administrative, economic and control functions. It is determined that the office manager constantly makes managerial decisions, which is an intervention in the problem, or in the situation, in order to solve them, and also develops forecasts for the successful development of the organization in the future. The stages of managerial decision-making are considered, namely: identification of problems in management, development of stages of decision planning and implementation of the decision. The concept of intuitive decision, which is made on the basis of a person’s feeling that his/her choice is correct, has been defined. Prospects for further research in this direction are to identify problems in management that can be identified during the «informal exchange of information and intuitively». It is noted that the important tasks at the office are documentary support of management, since for decision-making it is necessary to perform a large amount of office work of the same type. Further consideration of the classification of managerial tasks in the office according to the degree of intelligence, complexity and classification of employees of the organization in accordance with the tasks performed will make it possible to quickly respond to changes in the reaction of the enterprise in a particular situation and develop plans and tasks for making an effective managerial decision for the future strategic development of the enterprise