Decision Sciences

2 open-access papers in Decision Sciences, free to watch.

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Unveiling the Chasm in Japanese robot-assisted surgery diffusion: the interplay of surgical volume and intra-specialty spillover

Yusuke Natsume, Shingo Kano

Robotic surgery is spreading, but not like a wave reaching every hospital. Some operations catch on quickly, while others stall at a narrow gap, and the size of the surgical market helps explain why. Robot-assisted surgery is spreading quickly, but not in a straight line. In Japan, some low-volume procedures accelerate, while several larger markets remain stuck below a sixteen-percent adoption boundary.

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Cognitive load and prefrontal neuromodulation shape exploration, risk-taking, and information seeking in experience-based decision making

Ankit Singh, Varun Dutt, Akash K Rao

Everyday choices ask us to balance a safe option against a tempting gamble, and sometimes to pay for more information. This study finds that mental busyness and mild brain stimulation can shift those choices in different ways. Mental effort and brain stimulation did not simply push decision-making in opposite directions. Instead, their combination changed some kinds of exploration while leaving other choices unaffected.

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