Psychology and Decision Making
This rule evaluates how a decision will feel in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.
What is the 10-10-10 rule?
This is the maximum number of lives one organ donor can save.
What is eight?
This ethical principle requires that a person voluntarily agrees to donate after learning all of the possible risks and complications without any influence.
What is informed consent?
In this long-running medical drama, surgeons at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital frequently perform transplant surgeries.
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
This feeling of understanding and sharing another person’s pain can motivate someone to become an organ donor.
What is empathy?
This process occurs when people favour information that confirms their existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This blood type is considered the universal donor for red blood cells.
What is O negative?
This international organization provides guidance and information regarding organ and tissue donation, and additional health information.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This science fiction trope, often seen in movies and TV, involves illegally removing and selling human organs for profit.
What is organ trafficking?
This psychological concept describes the discomfort someone may feel when their belief in helping others conflicts with their fear of organ donation
What is cognitive dissonance?
This word describes a mental shortcut or “rule of thumb” that helps people make quick decisions
What are heuristics?
This organ can partially regenerate after a living donation.
What is the liver?
This concept describes the moral obligation to respect the deceased person’s wishes on organ donation.
What is respect for autonomy?
This Disney Channel star revealed in 2017 that she received a kidney transplant due to complications from lupus.
Who is Selena Gomez?
This social psychologist, best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment, studied how social norms and situational influences shape human behaviour – principles often used in public health campaigns to increase organ donor registration.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This psychological phenomenon explains why people are more likely to remain organ donors if being a donor were the default option, even if opting out is easy.
What is the default effect? /What is the status quo bias?
This medical condition must be declared before organ donation can occur and involves irreversible loss of all brain function.
What is brain death?
This ethical theory would argue that the organ should go to the person who will receive the greatest medical benefit.
What is utility?/What is utilitarianism?
This tech visionary and co-founder of a major Tech company underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer
Who is Steve Jobs?
This phenomenon describes how people are more likely to register as organ donors when they believe most of their community supports donation.
What is normative social influence?/What is social norm influence?
This theory by Daniel Kahneman divides the cognitive process of decision making into 2 systems: fast, automatic, intuitive, and slow, effortful, logical.
What is the Dual Process theory?
This Canadian province became the first in North America to implement presumed consent legislation for organ donation.
What is Nova Scotia?
This ethical dilemma occurs when respecting a family’s wishes conflicts with a deceased patient’s documented decision on organ donation.
What is the conflict between family authority and individual autonomy?
This Modern Family actress has openly shared that she received not one, but two kidney transplants due to kidney dysplasia.
Who is Sarah Hyland?
This psychological principle explains why emotional donor stories often increase registration rates compared to donation statistics.
What is the identifiable victim effect?