W Bruine De Bruin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226689 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W Bruine De Bruin |
| NOMBRES | W Bruine |
| APELLIDO | De Bruin |
| FIRMA | DE BRUIN W B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1601-789X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Barriers and enablers to reduced meat intake and perceptions of sustainable diets, among Los Angeles County adults with low incomes
Introduction: Because of the environmental impacts of meat production, sustainable eating emphasizes eating less meat, and especially less red and processed meat. Here, barriers and enablers to reducing meat intake, and perceptions of sustainable diets, were examined among adults with low income, who often face barriers to food access and choice. The implementation science framework COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) model was …
Women, Younger Adults, and Singles Were Most Likely to Report Loneliness During the Pandemic
Self-reports of loneliness were growing in the United States even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventative health measures during the pandemic, such as social distancing and lockdowns, raised concerns that self-reports of loneliness would further increase. Published literature from the first few months of the pandemic supported these concerns, but long-term effects were largely unknown. Here, we examined whether self-reported loneliness varied …
Not eating red meat is associated with reporting the environment and climate change as a top concern
Eating excess red meat has negative consequences for the environment. However, it is unclear whether having the environment and climate change as a top concern plays a role in whether or not Americans eat red meat. In a secondary analysis of survey data collected with a representative U.S. sample (N = 7375), we examined (1) the percent of participants who self-reported not eating red meat and how it varied with socio-demographics, and (2) the ext…
TV news stories can increase concerns about severe weather and climate change, as well as support for adaptation policies
Communicating Probabilities of Cervical Cancer Screening Results with Icon Arrays or Tree Diagrams
Simple graphical displays such as icon arrays and tree diagrams have been proposed for communicating health risks and supporting informed decisions. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) uses tree diagrams to communicate the chances of different cervical cancer screening results, but their effectiveness has not been compared to icon arrays. We conducted a well-powered longitudinal experiment involving 3,100 UK women eligible for cervical screeni…
Fear, anger, and Covid-19 risk
Everything in Its Own Time
Financial planning horizons reflect the time periods people use for their financial decisions. They are measured to understand and inform financial decisions and to predict financial outcomes like using a financial advisor, having a retirement account, or having lower inflation expectations. Financial surveys typically ask participants to report one planning horizon for “saving and spending,” seemingly assuming that people use one planning horizo…
Social Networks, Health Support, and Dietary Intake in Mothers Receiving Home Visiting Services
Home visiting programs (HVPs) provide services to pregnant individuals and parents of young children to improve families' health and well-being. However, little is known about these families' social contexts. This study explores the social networks and dietary intake of mothers enrolled in a HVP, focusing on health support and health undermining. Cross-sectional data from 76 mothers enrolled in a HVP in Los Angeles County were collected by interv…
Socio-ecological factors linked with changes in adults’ dietary intake in Los Angeles County during the peak of the coronavirus 2019 pandemic
Objective: Comprehensive studies examining longitudinal predictors of dietary change during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are lacking. Based on an ecological framework, this study used longitudinal data to test if individual, social and environmental factors predicted change in dietary intake during the peak of the coronavirus 2019 pandemic in Los Angeles County and examined interactions among the multilevel predictors. Design: We analyse…
Global public concerns about climate change
New insights into grocery store visits among east Los Angeles residents using mobility data
Understanding food insecurity in Los Angeles County during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath
Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making
Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making are distinct from traditional accounts in psychology and neuroscience. While these traditional accounts focus on limitations of the human mind as a major source of bounded rationality, the sampling approach originates in a broader cognitive-ecological perspective. It starts from the fundamental assumption that in order to understand intra-psychic cognitive processes one first has to understand t…
Ecological risk and protective factors for food insufficiency in Los Angeles County during the Covid-19 pandemic
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic increased food insufficiency: a severe form of food insecurity. Drawing on an ecological framework, we aimed to understand factors that contributed to changes in food insufficiency from April to December 2020, in a large urban population hard hit by the pandemic. Design: We conducted internet surveys every 2 weeks in April–December 2020, including a subset of items from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Longit…
Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands
The amount of financial debt held by older adults has grown substantially over the past two decades in Europe. This study examines the association of objective and subjective debt burden with social and emotional loneliness among 1,606 older adults in the Netherlands. Objective debt burden is based on financial terms, such as debt-to-income ratio; whereas subjective debt burden measures the psychological distress caused by financial debt. Data ar…
Asking about Social Circles Improves Election Predictions Even with Many Political Parties
Traditionally, election polls have asked for participants’ own voting intentions. In four elections, we previously found that we could improve predictions by asking participants how they thought their social circles would vote. A potential concern is that the social-circle question might predict results less well in elections with larger numbers of political options because it becomes harder to accurately track how social contacts plan to vote. H…
Effect of Covid-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal
Currently, one of the most pressing public health challenges is encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Due to limited supplies, some people have had to wait for the COVID-19 vaccine. Consumer research has suggested that people who are overlooked in initial distribution of desired goods may no longer be interested. Here, we therefore examined people's preferences for proposed vaccine allocation strategies, as well as their anticipa…
Self-reported dietary changes among Los Angeles County adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
Poor diets are historically the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (U.S.), causing over 44,000 deaths each month. Dietary patterns have likely changed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to major shifts and crises in social, economic, and food systems. This study examines self-reported dietary changes in Los Angeles (L.A.) County during COVID-19, and identifies factors associated with making healthy and unhealthy changes. …
Mental associations with Covid-19 and how they relate with self-reported protective behaviors
Age differences in reported social networks and well-being.
Social networks can consist of close friends, family members, and neighbors as well as peripheral others. Studies of social networks and associations with well-being have mostly focused on age-restricted samples of older adults or specific geographic areas, thus limiting their generalizability. We analyzed 2 online surveys conducted with RAND's American Life Panel, a national adult life span sample recruited through multiple probability-based app…
Political polarization in US residents’ Covid-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors
What Adaptation Stories are UK Newspapers Telling? A Narrative Analysis
Media coverage of climate change impacts and adaptation will likely influence how citizens think society can and should adapt. Here, we undertook the first analysis of UK newspaper adaptation coverage. We identified five prominent adaptation narratives: (1) the government should build more flood defences, (2) home owners should buy flood insurance, (3) individuals should become more informed, (4) the farming industry should innovate, (5) and the …
Relationships Between Initial Covid-19 Risk Perceptions and Protective Health Behaviors
Keep wind projects close? A case study of distance, culture, and cost in offshore and onshore wind energy siting
Age Differences in Covid-19 Risk Perceptions and Mental Health
With the exception of perceived infection-fatality risk, U.S. adults who were relatively older appeared to have a more optimistic outlook and better mental health during the early stages of the pandemic. Interventions may be needed to help people of all ages maintain realistic perceptions of the risks, while also managing depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis. Implications for risk communication and mental health interventions are dis…
Teen Expectations for Significant Life Events
Journal Article Teen Expectations for Significant Life Events Get access BARUCH FISCHHOFF, BARUCH FISCHHOFF Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANDREW M. PARKER, ANDREW M. PARKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN, WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JULIE DOWNS, JULIE DOWNS Search for other w…
Age Differences in Covid-19 Risk Perceptions and Mental Health
With the exception of perceived infection-fatality risk, U.S. adults who were relatively older appeared to have a more optimistic outlook and better mental health during the early stages of the pandemic. Interventions may be needed to help people of all ages maintain realistic perceptions of the risks, while also managing depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis. Implications for risk communication and mental health interventions are dis…
Individual differences in adult decision-making competence
The authors evaluated the reliability and validity of a set of 7 behavioral decision-making tasks, measuring different aspects of the decision-making process. The tasks were administered to individuals from diverse populations. Participants showed relatively consistent performance within and across the 7 tasks, which were then aggregated into an Adult Decision-Making Competence (A-DMC) index that showed good reliability. The validity of the 7 tas…
Interactive video behavioral intervention to reduce adolescent females' STD risk
Decision‐making Competence, Executive Functioning, and General Cognitive Abilities
Although previous studies investigated the relationship between general cognitive abilities and decision making, few have characterized specific cognitive abilities underlying decision‐making competence. In this paper, we focus on executive functions—control processes involved in the regulation of cognition. Specifically, we report on an individual‐differences study that investigated the relationship of executive functioning (EF) and general cogn…
Inappropriate Confidence and Retirement Planning
Financial decisions about investing and saving for retirement are increasingly complex, requiring financial knowledge and confidence in that knowledge. Few studies have examined whether direct assessments of individuals' confidence are related to the outcomes of their financial decisions. Here, we analyzed data from a national sample recruited through RAND's American Life Panel (ALP), an internet panel of U.S. adults aged 18 to 88. We examined th…
Explaining adult age differences in decision‐making competence
Studies on aging‐related changes in decision making report mixed results. Some decision‐making skills decline with age, while others remain unchanged or improve. Because fluid cognitive ability (e.g., reasoning, problem solving) deteriorates with age, older adults should perform worse on decision‐making tasks that tap fluid cognitive ability. However, performance on some decision‐making tasks may require experience, which increases with age. On t…
Asking about social circles improves election predictions
Heat protection behaviors and positive affect about heat during the 2013 heat wave in the United Kingdom
Heat waves pose serious health risks, and are expected to become more frequent, longer lasting, and more intense in the future under a changing climate. Yet, people in the UK seem to feel positive when thinking about hot weather. According to research on the affect heuristic, any positive or negative emotions evoked by potentially risky experiences may be used as cues to inform concerns about risk protection. If so, then their positive feelings t…
The effect of question wording on consumers’ reported inflation expectations
Age differences in moral judgment
In 2 studies, an older and a younger age group morally evaluated dilemmas contrasting a deontological judgment (do not harm others) against a utilitarian judgment (do what is best for the majority). Previous research suggests that deontological moral judgments are often underpinned by affective reactions and utilitarian moral judgments by deliberative thinking. Separately, research on the psychology of aging has shown that affect plays a more pro…
Expectations of inflation
Self-reported dietary changes among Los Angeles County adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
Poor diets are historically the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (U.S.), causing over 44,000 deaths each month. Dietary patterns have likely changed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to major shifts and crises in social, economic, and food systems. This study examines self-reported dietary changes in Los Angeles (L.A.) County during COVID-19, and identifies factors associated with making healthy and unhealthy changes. …
Keep wind projects close? A case study of distance, culture, and cost in offshore and onshore wind energy siting
Unraveling the Aging Skein
Age‐related differences in sensory functioning, processing speed, and working memory have been identified as three significant predictors of the age‐related performance decline observed in complex cognitive tasks. Yet, the assessment of their relative predictive capacity and interrelations is still an open issue in decision making and cognitive aging research. Indeed, no previous investigation has examined the relationships of all these three pre…
Robustness of Decision‐Making Competence
Decision-making competence is the ability to follow normative principles when making decisions. In a longitudinal analysis, we examine the robustness of decision-making competence over time, as measured by two batteries of paper-and-pencil tasks. Participants completed the youth version (Y-DMC) at age 19 and/or the adult version (A-DMC) eleven years later at age 30, as part of a larger longitudinal study. Both measures are comprised of tasks adap…
Late‐life Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Attempted Suicide
Suicide rates are highest in adults of middle and older age. Research with psychiatric patients has shown that proneness to feel regret about past decisions can grow so intense that suicide becomes a tempting escape. Here, we examine the additional role of individual differences in maximizing, or the tendency to strive for the best decision, rather than one that is good enough. We provided individual-differences measures of maximizing, regret pro…
Preferences for change
Asking about Social Circles Improves Election Predictions Even with Many Political Parties
Traditionally, election polls have asked for participants’ own voting intentions. In four elections, we previously found that we could improve predictions by asking participants how they thought their social circles would vote. A potential concern is that the social-circle question might predict results less well in elections with larger numbers of political options because it becomes harder to accurately track how social contacts plan to vote. H…
Age differences in financial decision making
The emerging literature on aging and decision making posits that decision‐making competence changes with age, as a result of age differences in various cognitive and noncognitive individual‐differences characteristics. In a national life‐span sample from the United Kingdom ( N = 926), we examined age differences in financial decisions, including performance measures of sunk cost and credit card repayment decisions, and self‐report measures of mon…
Taking the Biggest First
We discuss "taking the biggest first" preferences in light of prior mixed findings on age differences in sequence preferences. We highlight the distinct roles of experience- and emotion-based decision-making processes. We propose applications to financial and health-care settings
Individual Differences in Decision‐making Competence
no abstract available
Global public concerns about climate change
Understanding food insecurity in Los Angeles County during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath
Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands
The amount of financial debt held by older adults has grown substantially over the past two decades in Europe. This study examines the association of objective and subjective debt burden with social and emotional loneliness among 1,606 older adults in the Netherlands. Objective debt burden is based on financial terms, such as debt-to-income ratio; whereas subjective debt burden measures the psychological distress caused by financial debt. Data ar…
Fifty–Fifty=50
Fifty-Fifty=50
Several recent surveys have asked respondents to estimate the probabilities of relatively unlikely events, such as dying from breast cancer and smoking. Examination of their response distributions reveals a seemingly inappropriate ‘blip’ at 50. The two studies reported here indicate that it reflects a response artifact associated with open-ended probability scales. The blip vanishes when a response scale with explicit response options is offered.…
Teen Expectations for Significant Life Events
Journal Article Teen Expectations for Significant Life Events Get access BARUCH FISCHHOFF, BARUCH FISCHHOFF Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANDREW M. PARKER, ANDREW M. PARKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN, WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JULIE DOWNS, JULIE DOWNS Search for other w…
Mental Models of Women With Breast Implants
Twenty-five women with breast implants participated in semistructured interviews designed to reveal their "mental models" of the processes potentially causing local (i.e., nonsystemic) problems. The authors analyzed their responses in terms of an "expert model," circumscribing scientifically relevant information. Most of the women interviewed had something to say about most elements in the expert model. Nonetheless, gaps in their mental models un…
Interactive video behavioral intervention to reduce adolescent females' STD risk
Expert judgments of pandemic influenza risks
Structured surveys were conducted with 19 medical experts, and 17 non-medical experts in related fields, attending a meeting about pandemic influenza. Respondents gave quantitative judgments for key variables potentially affecting the extent of a possible H5N1 pandemic. The medical experts saw about a 15% (median) chance of efficient human-to-human transmission, in the next 3 years. Should it occur, they saw almost no chance of there being adequa…
Individual differences in adult decision-making competence
The authors evaluated the reliability and validity of a set of 7 behavioral decision-making tasks, measuring different aspects of the decision-making process. The tasks were administered to individuals from diverse populations. Participants showed relatively consistent performance within and across the 7 tasks, which were then aggregated into an Adult Decision-Making Competence (A-DMC) index that showed good reliability. The validity of the 7 tas…
Preferences for change
Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings
In a national online survey, 505 participants reported their perceptions of energy consumption and savings for a variety of household, transportation, and recycling activities. When asked for the most effective strategy they could implement to conserve energy, most participants mentioned curtailment (e.g., turning off lights, driving less) rather than efficiency improvements (e.g., installing more efficient light bulbs and appliances), in contras…
Explaining adult age differences in decision‐making competence
Studies on aging‐related changes in decision making report mixed results. Some decision‐making skills decline with age, while others remain unchanged or improve. Because fluid cognitive ability (e.g., reasoning, problem solving) deteriorates with age, older adults should perform worse on decision‐making tasks that tap fluid cognitive ability. However, performance on some decision‐making tasks may require experience, which increases with age. On t…
Inappropriate Confidence and Retirement Planning
Financial decisions about investing and saving for retirement are increasingly complex, requiring financial knowledge and confidence in that knowledge. Few studies have examined whether direct assessments of individuals' confidence are related to the outcomes of their financial decisions. Here, we analyzed data from a national sample recruited through RAND's American Life Panel (ALP), an internet panel of U.S. adults aged 18 to 88. We examined th…
Decision‐making Competence, Executive Functioning, and General Cognitive Abilities
Although previous studies investigated the relationship between general cognitive abilities and decision making, few have characterized specific cognitive abilities underlying decision‐making competence. In this paper, we focus on executive functions—control processes involved in the regulation of cognition. Specifically, we report on an individual‐differences study that investigated the relationship of executive functioning (EF) and general cogn…
Expectations of inflation
Individual Differences in Decision‐making Competence
no abstract available
The effect of question wording on consumers’ reported inflation expectations
Assessing what to address in science communication
As members of a democratic society, individuals face complex decisions about whether to support climate change mitigation, vaccinations, genetically modified food, nanotechnology, geoengineering, and so on. To inform people’s decisions and public debate, scientific experts at government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other organizations aim to provide understandable and scientifically accurate communication materials. Such communica…
The effect of communication design and recipients’ numeracy on responses to UXO risk
Risk communications aim to affect recipients’ understanding of specific risks, their trust and liking of the materials, affective responses, and associated behaviors. We developed communications about the number of construction workers expected to get hurt if building were permitted at the former Fort Ord weapons training site in California, despite its contamination with unexploded ordnance (UXO). We created eight versions, which presented text …
Climate Change Beliefs and Perceptions of Weather‐Related Changes in the United Kingdom
Public perception research in different countries has suggested that real and perceived periods of high temperature strengthen people's climate change beliefs. Such findings raise questions about the climate change beliefs of people in regions with moderate climates. Relatively little is known about whether public concerns about climate change may also be associated with perceived changes in other weather‐related events, such as precipitation or …
Labeling energy cost on light bulbs lowers implicit discount rates
Heat protection behaviour in the UK
Our study has found a high level of awareness of the actions to take during heatwaves in the UK, and has identified important demographic indicators of sections of the UK population that might benefit from additional or more targeted information. The health agencies should attempt to provide better information about heatwaves to those vulnerable (elderly, those at risk living in London, low income earners) or identify any barriers that might be p…
Developing communications about CCS
To curb the risks of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change posits that global CO2 emissions from the energy supply sector must be reduced to 90% below 2010 levels between 2040 and 2070. Electricity generation is the largest contributor to emissions from the energy supply sector. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) holds the promise of helping to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants, as part of a low-carbon portfo…
Late‐life Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Attempted Suicide
Suicide rates are highest in adults of middle and older age. Research with psychiatric patients has shown that proneness to feel regret about past decisions can grow so intense that suicide becomes a tempting escape. Here, we examine the additional role of individual differences in maximizing, or the tendency to strive for the best decision, rather than one that is good enough. We provided individual-differences measures of maximizing, regret pro…
Unraveling the Aging Skein
Age‐related differences in sensory functioning, processing speed, and working memory have been identified as three significant predictors of the age‐related performance decline observed in complex cognitive tasks. Yet, the assessment of their relative predictive capacity and interrelations is still an open issue in decision making and cognitive aging research. Indeed, no previous investigation has examined the relationships of all these three pre…
Heat protection behaviors and positive affect about heat during the 2013 heat wave in the United Kingdom
Heat waves pose serious health risks, and are expected to become more frequent, longer lasting, and more intense in the future under a changing climate. Yet, people in the UK seem to feel positive when thinking about hot weather. According to research on the affect heuristic, any positive or negative emotions evoked by potentially risky experiences may be used as cues to inform concerns about risk protection. If so, then their positive feelings t…
Perceptions of electricity-use communications
Electricity bills could be an effective strategy for improving communications about consumers’ electricity use and promoting electricity savings. However, quantitative communications about electricity use may be difficult to understand, especially for consumers with low energy literacy. Here, we build on the health communication and graph comprehension literature to inform electricity bill design, with the goal of improving understanding, prefere…
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