Brian J Zikmund-Fisher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1726352 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian J Zikmund-Fisher |
| NOMBRES | Brian J |
| APELLIDO | Zikmund-Fisher |
| FIRMA | ZIKMUND-FISHER B J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1637-4176 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Dissociable impacts of biological and functional framings of depression
In Study 1 and Study 2, adults were randomized to read a hypothetical clinical case in which either the biology causing depression was reflective of inner dysfunction or was serving a function. Despite both explanations invoking biological causes, the manipulations had dissociable impacts on stigmatizing beliefs, hope for recovery, and treatment attitudes. In a within-subjects design, Study 3 found dissociable effects on these same outcomes wheth…
Comparing biogenetic with functional descriptions of depression
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease
Attributions for ambiguity in a treatment‐decision context can create ambiguity aversion or seeking
The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion suggests that people prefer options that offer precisely rather than imprecisely known chances of success. However, past work on people's responses to ambiguity in health treatment contexts found ambiguity seeking rather than aversion. The present work addressed whether such findings reflected a broad tendency for ambiguity seeking in health treatment contexts or whether specific attributions for ambiguity pla…
Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”
What if I am the one? Measuring individual differences in emotional sensitivity to probability and emotional reactivity to possibility
Current theories of risk perception point to the powerful role of emotion and the neglect of probabilistic information in the face of risk, but these tendencies differ across individuals. We propose a method for measuring individuals' emotional sensitivity to probability to assess how feelings about probabilities, rather than the probabilities themselves, influence decisions. Participants gave affective ratings (worry or excitement) to 14 risky e…
What Clinical Ethics Can Learn From Decision Science
Many components of decision science are relevant to clinical ethics practice. Attention to decision-making processes reminds participants in consultations that how decisions are made and how information is provided can change a choice. Decision science also helps reveal affective forecasting errors (errors in predictions about how one will feel in a future situation) that happen when people consider possible future health states and suggests stra…
The role of severity perceptions and beliefs in natural infections in Shanghai parents’ vaccine decision-making
Many parents do not appear to understand how and why vaccines can support development of a healthy immune system. Because severity emerged as parents' overriding concern when making decisions about vaccines, marketing for a childhood vaccine could focus on the severe condition that a vaccine can protect against
Half-Life Your Message
Academic writers and presenters need concrete activities to help them learn how to communicate more effectively. We describe such a tool, called “Half-Life Your Message,” which is adapted from a commonly used improvisational theater game and can be applied in three minutes to distill a central thesis for any communication effort. Users can increase the value provided by Half-Life Your Message by scaffolding its application with an introduction an…
More risks can feel less risky
Associations between health literacy and preventive health behaviors among older adults
In a subsample of older adult participants of the HRS, measures of health literacy were positively related to several health promoting behaviors and health-related beliefs and non-use of breast self-exams, a screening behavior of questionable benefit. These relationships varied however, between self-reported and objectively-measured health literacy. Further investigation into the specific mechanisms that lead higher literacy people to pursue heal…
The psychology of ‘regrettable substitutions’
Bisphenol A is a chemical used to make certain types of plastics and is found in numerous consumer products. Because scientific studies have raised concerns about Bisphenol A's potential impact on human health, it has been removed from some (but not all) products. What many consumers do not know, however, is that Bisphenol A is often replaced with other, less-studied chemicals whose health implications are virtually unknown. This type of situatio…
The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients’ medical decisions
Background Many decisions can be understood in terms of actors’ valuations of benefits and costs. The article investigates whether this is also true of patient medical decision making. It aims to investigate (i) the importance patients attach to various reasons for and against nine medical decisions; (ii) how well the importance attached to benefits and costs predicts action or inaction; and (iii) how such valuations are related to decision confi…
Anticipating the arrival of low-penetrance genetic testing to primary care medicine
Trends in Risk Perceptions and Vaccination Intentions
Objectives. We sought to evaluate longitudinal trends in people’s risk perceptions and vaccination intentions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. We used data from 10 waves of a US national survey focusing on the H1N1 pandemic (administered between May 2009 and January 2010) to conduct a longitudinal analysis of adult respondents’ risk perceptions and vaccination intentions. Results. Self-reported perceived risk of becoming infected with H1N1…
Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid
Partisan Vision Biases Determination of Voter Intent
In close, disputed elections, outcomes can depend on determinations of voter intent for ballots that have been filled out improperly. We surveyed 899 adult Minnesotans during a time when the state's U.S. Senate election was still disputed and presented them with ambiguous ballots similar to ballots under dispute in the same election. We randomized participants to three experimental groups, across which we varied the names on the ballot. We found …
Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening
Measuring Numeracy without a Math Test
Background. Basic numeracy skills are necessary before patients can understand the risks of medical treatments. Previous research has used objective measures, similar to mathematics tests, to evaluate numeracy. Objectives. To design a subjective measure (i.e., self-assessment) of quantitative ability that distinguishes low- and high-numerate individuals yet is less aversive, quicker to administer, and more useable for telephone and Internet surve…
Making Numbers Matter
The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation
De‐escalation after repeated negative feedback
Research on willingness to make marginal investments (e.g., the escalation and sunk cost literatures) has often focused on project completion decisions, such as the “radar‐blank plane.” This paper discusses a fundamentally different type of marginal investment decision, that of couples deciding whether to continue infertility treatment in the face of repeated failures. Two experiments based on this context show that when people face multiple inde…
Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease
The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation
Half-Life Your Message
Academic writers and presenters need concrete activities to help them learn how to communicate more effectively. We describe such a tool, called “Half-Life Your Message,” which is adapted from a commonly used improvisational theater game and can be applied in three minutes to distill a central thesis for any communication effort. Users can increase the value provided by Half-Life Your Message by scaffolding its application with an introduction an…
Trends in Risk Perceptions and Vaccination Intentions
Objectives. We sought to evaluate longitudinal trends in people’s risk perceptions and vaccination intentions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. We used data from 10 waves of a US national survey focusing on the H1N1 pandemic (administered between May 2009 and January 2010) to conduct a longitudinal analysis of adult respondents’ risk perceptions and vaccination intentions. Results. Self-reported perceived risk of becoming infected with H1N1…
What if I am the one? Measuring individual differences in emotional sensitivity to probability and emotional reactivity to possibility
Current theories of risk perception point to the powerful role of emotion and the neglect of probabilistic information in the face of risk, but these tendencies differ across individuals. We propose a method for measuring individuals' emotional sensitivity to probability to assess how feelings about probabilities, rather than the probabilities themselves, influence decisions. Participants gave affective ratings (worry or excitement) to 14 risky e…
Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid
De‐escalation after repeated negative feedback
Research on willingness to make marginal investments (e.g., the escalation and sunk cost literatures) has often focused on project completion decisions, such as the “radar‐blank plane.” This paper discusses a fundamentally different type of marginal investment decision, that of couples deciding whether to continue infertility treatment in the face of repeated failures. Two experiments based on this context show that when people face multiple inde…
De‐escalation after repeated negative feedback
Research on willingness to make marginal investments (e.g., the escalation and sunk cost literatures) has often focused on project completion decisions, such as the “radar‐blank plane.” This paper discusses a fundamentally different type of marginal investment decision, that of couples deciding whether to continue infertility treatment in the face of repeated failures. Two experiments based on this context show that when people face multiple inde…
The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation
Measuring Numeracy without a Math Test
Background. Basic numeracy skills are necessary before patients can understand the risks of medical treatments. Previous research has used objective measures, similar to mathematics tests, to evaluate numeracy. Objectives. To design a subjective measure (i.e., self-assessment) of quantitative ability that distinguishes low- and high-numerate individuals yet is less aversive, quicker to administer, and more useable for telephone and Internet surve…
Making Numbers Matter
Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening
Partisan Vision Biases Determination of Voter Intent
In close, disputed elections, outcomes can depend on determinations of voter intent for ballots that have been filled out improperly. We surveyed 899 adult Minnesotans during a time when the state's U.S. Senate election was still disputed and presented them with ambiguous ballots similar to ballots under dispute in the same election. We randomized participants to three experimental groups, across which we varied the names on the ballot. We found …
Trends in Risk Perceptions and Vaccination Intentions
Objectives. We sought to evaluate longitudinal trends in people’s risk perceptions and vaccination intentions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. We used data from 10 waves of a US national survey focusing on the H1N1 pandemic (administered between May 2009 and January 2010) to conduct a longitudinal analysis of adult respondents’ risk perceptions and vaccination intentions. Results. Self-reported perceived risk of becoming infected with H1N1…
Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid
Anticipating the arrival of low-penetrance genetic testing to primary care medicine
The psychology of ‘regrettable substitutions’
Bisphenol A is a chemical used to make certain types of plastics and is found in numerous consumer products. Because scientific studies have raised concerns about Bisphenol A's potential impact on human health, it has been removed from some (but not all) products. What many consumers do not know, however, is that Bisphenol A is often replaced with other, less-studied chemicals whose health implications are virtually unknown. This type of situatio…
The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients’ medical decisions
Background Many decisions can be understood in terms of actors’ valuations of benefits and costs. The article investigates whether this is also true of patient medical decision making. It aims to investigate (i) the importance patients attach to various reasons for and against nine medical decisions; (ii) how well the importance attached to benefits and costs predicts action or inaction; and (iii) how such valuations are related to decision confi…
Associations between health literacy and preventive health behaviors among older adults
In a subsample of older adult participants of the HRS, measures of health literacy were positively related to several health promoting behaviors and health-related beliefs and non-use of breast self-exams, a screening behavior of questionable benefit. These relationships varied however, between self-reported and objectively-measured health literacy. Further investigation into the specific mechanisms that lead higher literacy people to pursue heal…
More risks can feel less risky
The role of severity perceptions and beliefs in natural infections in Shanghai parents’ vaccine decision-making
Many parents do not appear to understand how and why vaccines can support development of a healthy immune system. Because severity emerged as parents' overriding concern when making decisions about vaccines, marketing for a childhood vaccine could focus on the severe condition that a vaccine can protect against
Half-Life Your Message
Academic writers and presenters need concrete activities to help them learn how to communicate more effectively. We describe such a tool, called “Half-Life Your Message,” which is adapted from a commonly used improvisational theater game and can be applied in three minutes to distill a central thesis for any communication effort. Users can increase the value provided by Half-Life Your Message by scaffolding its application with an introduction an…
What Clinical Ethics Can Learn From Decision Science
Many components of decision science are relevant to clinical ethics practice. Attention to decision-making processes reminds participants in consultations that how decisions are made and how information is provided can change a choice. Decision science also helps reveal affective forecasting errors (errors in predictions about how one will feel in a future situation) that happen when people consider possible future health states and suggests stra…
Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”
What if I am the one? Measuring individual differences in emotional sensitivity to probability and emotional reactivity to possibility
Current theories of risk perception point to the powerful role of emotion and the neglect of probabilistic information in the face of risk, but these tendencies differ across individuals. We propose a method for measuring individuals' emotional sensitivity to probability to assess how feelings about probabilities, rather than the probabilities themselves, influence decisions. Participants gave affective ratings (worry or excitement) to 14 risky e…
Attributions for ambiguity in a treatment‐decision context can create ambiguity aversion or seeking
The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion suggests that people prefer options that offer precisely rather than imprecisely known chances of success. However, past work on people's responses to ambiguity in health treatment contexts found ambiguity seeking rather than aversion. The present work addressed whether such findings reflected a broad tendency for ambiguity seeking in health treatment contexts or whether specific attributions for ambiguity pla…
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease
Comparing biogenetic with functional descriptions of depression
Dissociable impacts of biological and functional framings of depression
In Study 1 and Study 2, adults were randomized to read a hypothetical clinical case in which either the biology causing depression was reflective of inner dysfunction or was serving a function. Despite both explanations invoking biological causes, the manipulations had dissociable impacts on stigmatizing beliefs, hope for recovery, and treatment attitudes. In a within-subjects design, Study 3 found dissociable effects on these same outcomes wheth…
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