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  2. Theory of reasoned action - Wikipedia

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    A positivistic approach to behavior research, TRA attempts to predict and explain one's intention of performing a certain behavior.The theory requires that behavior be clearly defined in terms of the four following concepts: Action (e.g. to go, get), Target (e.g. a mammogram), Context (e.g. at the breast screening center), and Time (e.g. in the 12 months). [7]

  3. Reasoned action approach - Wikipedia

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    The reasoned action approach is the latest version of the theoretical ideas of Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen, following the earlier theory of reasoned action [2] and the theory of planned behavior. [3] Those theoretical ideas have resulted in over a thousand empirical studies in behavioral science journals.

  4. Martin Fishbein - Wikipedia

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    Martin Fishbein (March 2, 1936 Brooklyn, New York – November 27, 2009 London) [1] was a social psychologist, considered influential, and active AIDS prevention. He had been director of the health communication program at the University of Pennsylvania Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication .

  5. Multi-attribute utility - Wikipedia

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    AI is a symmetric relation (if attribute 1 is AI of attribute 2 then attribute 2 is AI of attribute 1), while UI and PI are not. AI implies mutual UI. The opposite is, in general, not true; it is true only if k = 0 {\displaystyle k=0} in the multi-linear formula for UI attributes.

  6. Expectancy-value theory - Wikipedia

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    Expectancy–value theory has been developed in many different fields including education, health, communications, marketing and economics. Although the model differs in its meaning and implications for each field, the general idea is that there are expectations as well as values or beliefs that affect subsequent behavior.

  7. Multiple-criteria decision analysis - Wikipedia

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    In this example a company should prefer product B's risk and payoffs under realistic risk preference coefficients. Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings such as business, government and medicine).

  8. Functional attitude theory - Wikipedia

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    Herek claimed that functionalism was attractive as an approach to attitude theory because it felt like "common sense" to most people and possessed the potential to integrate other attitude theories such as Ajzen & Fishbein's (1980) [17] theory of reasoned action, or Sears et al.'s (1980) symbolic politics (Herek, 1987), [20] but because Smith ...

  9. Multi-attribute global inference of quality - Wikipedia

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    The MAGIQ technique has features similar to the analytic hierarchy process and the simple multi-attribute rating technique exploiting ranks (SMARTER) technique. The MAGIQ technique was first published by James D. McCaffrey. The MAGIQ process begins with an evaluator determining which system attributes are to be used as the basis for system ...