Sentence examples for of individual decision from inspiring English sources
Risk factor epidemiology has proved successful in formally integrating multifactorial causation and at the same time fostering the primacy of individual decision autonomy, which constitutes health as an issue to act upon individually [ 57].
Once such a system moves away from equilibrium, the (privately) rational choices of individual decision makers tend to accentuate disturbances rather than dampening them.
No organised religions wish to concede the principle that faith is a matter of individual decision, because without discipline, community pressure, and especially indoctrination of children, they would all quickly evaporate, leaving an unreflective chaos of vague new age-type beliefs such as now exist among the post-Christian majority of the mainstream.
Economic theorists offer a highly abstract account of individual decision making.
In order to solve such problems, the preferences of individual decision makers have to be measured.
It examines the changes in the proximity (similarity) of individual decision makers' solutions to a group solution as a function of information load.
This falls into the trap of seeing food waste primarily as a consequence of individual decision-making.
"If compliance isn't going to come from the government it really is going to be the power of individual decision-making that's going to create the change," said company representative Sarah McDonough.
It was so effective, thought Hayek, because no central political authority had designed it or could design it, proof positive of the uselessness of the state and superiority of individual decision-making.
The Nobel announcement credited Thaler, whose work has explored mental quirks such as loss aversion and the status-quo bias, for building "a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making".
Since the 1980s researchers in this branch of the discipline had used insights from psychology to develop more "realistic" models of individual decision-making, in which people often did things that were not in their best interests.
