She has been the regulator of weight; the titrator of substances; the veteran of a love triangle; the female artist who escaped the long shadow of a male collaborator; the commercial artist who passed through wildly different stations of commerce; and the canny performer whose utilitarian decisions and whimsical tastes became the totems and scripture of a tribe.
We conclude that ventral prefrontal tDCS interferes with utilitarian decisions, influencing the evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of each option in both sexes, but does so more strongly in females.
Some utilitarians (Sidgwick 1907, 489 90) suggest that a utilitarian decision procedure may be adopted as an esoteric morality by an elite group that is better at calculating utilities, but utilitarians can, instead, hold that nobody should use the principle of utility as a decision procedure.
Though some companies pursue philanthropic activities as a utilitarian decision (e.g., strategic philanthropy) just to be seen as "good corporate citizens," some do pursue philanthropy because they consider it to be the virtuous thing to do.
Anodal VPC-tDCS might therefore alter the outcomes of utilitarian decision-making processes by enhancing prefrontal dopamine.
In a strict utilitarian approach, decision makers should calculate the incremental cost effectiveness ratio for different potential treatments and allocate resources in increasing order from the lowest ratios representing the most affordable improvements in quality adjusted life years gained to the highest ratios representing the least affordable.
Some contributions for a more heterarchic, context-bounded, architecture of rational agent are given, and a goal-based strategy, as distinct from a strictly utilitarian principle of decision-making, is proposed.
This approach to balancing utilitarian and deontologic decision making is discussed elsewhere (8, 9 ).
Panels' decisions were strongly utilitarian, since they were responsible for allocating a set budget to provide healthcare for a geographically defined population.
The male sex-hormone testosterone might play a role in moral reasoning as males are more utilitarian than females in their moral decisions, and high salivary testosterone levels also are associated with utilitarian moral decisions.
The prose in "Decision Points" is utilitarian, the language staccato and blunt.
