1:10 PM PDT Breakout 4: Psychology and Cognitive Science Panel F
Wednesday, July 28 1:10PM – 2:10PM
Location: Online via Zoom
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Jada Edwards
Purdue University Northwest
Presentation 1
Healthcare Employees' Perceptions of Policies and Procedures
Working in healthcare especially in today’s time takes an emotional, mental, and physical toll on one’s everyday life. Going to work should not feel like a chore and with the help of those in higher up positions they should do everything they can to ensure their employees feel valued. Many the policies and procedures regarding how things are done regarding everyday patient care are made by those in upper management positions. I am studying how healthcare workers feel about policies and procedures that are created by management although those individuals are often not directly involved in patient care. This study focuses on healthcare workers’ attitudes towards their job including perceptions of job satisfaction, justice, and voice. I surveyed healthcare workers on what their thoughts were regarding these topics. With my findings, I hope to provide recommendations for those in upper management positions as well as inspire others to do further research on this topic.
Mohammad Sadiq Wiswall
Rutgers University
Presentation 2
Decision-Making Under Risk & Uncertainty: How Rural Bangladesh Can Inform Behavioral Economics About Risk Attitudes
Behavioral and experimental economics has mostly focused on sample groups consisting of university students in developed nations. This lack of representation in the experimental literature has two large implications. In the aspect of theory, these samples often are not representative of the general population, therefore, raising questions about theories based on these experiments (Harrison et al., 2010). Furthermore, studies on economic behavior in developing nations can inform policy to create equitable economic growth. In contrast to developed nations, citizens in Bangladesh face a moderate to a high level of risk (Export Finance Australia, n.d.). This study focuses on risk attitudes in rural Bangladesh by implementing a simple choice lottery game (Filiz et al., 2020). Our study is interested in two questions. Will results differ from previous findings in developed nations? How will variables such as poverty, illiteracy, savings, and land ownership influence risk attitudes? We hypothesize high poverty rates in Bangladesh will cause subjects to be more risk-averse than risk-loving. Further, we hypothesize results will differ from behavior in developed nations due to variables such as poverty, etc.