Emotions and Decision Making : Assignment

Running head: IMPACT OF EMOTION IN DECISION MAKING
IMPACT OF EMOTION IN DECISION MAKING: A STUDY OF HEALTHCARE
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Introduction
In the era of increasing number of health care consumers, understanding the role of
behavioral science is very crucial. The decisions taken by the health care professionals and the
families can affect the trajectory, quality and the length of a person's life (Lobach et al.2012).
Logical and rational thinking in decision making does not leave much room for emotions.
Decision making in terms of health care can involve emotions and increase complications.
Making decisions about health care is quite complex, as issues sometimes involve problems that
one is not used to thinking about in their day- to-day lives. The intensity of the decision making
is normally magnified when life threatening illness is involved (Dovidio and Fiske 2012). This
part of the paper will provide with a research philosophy, suitable collection methods and the
analysis of the collected data that will help to explore the roles of emotions in the decision
making process.
Research philosophy
A research philosophy is a belief about the means by which the information about a
research question is gathered, analyzed and interpreted (Barry and Edgman-Levitan 2012). In
general research philosophy in a research proposal should include pragmatism, positivism,
realism and interpretivism. Research philosophy normally consists of source, nature and
development of the knowledge (Maxwell 2012). Each step of the research process is on the basis
of the assumption of the author which serves as the base of the search strategy. A research
philosophy enables the author to decide which method of the data collection has to be conducted
suitable for the research (Miles et al. 2013). The research paradigm that has been selected for this

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research proposal can be interpretivism paradigm (Grbich 2012). Interpretive approaches depend
heavily on the naturalistic methods of data collection like interviewing, findings, analyzing and
interpretation. In a word mainly qualitative methods are used in this process. The methods ensure
that there is an adequate dialogue between the researches and the participants for the construction
of a meaningful reality (Fusch and Ness 2015). Interpretivism is generally based on a theory.
Research philosophy enables the researcher to decide which method of the data collection has to
be conducted suitable for the research. The research paradigm that has been selected for this
research proposal can be interpretivism paradigm, Theoretical belief that reality is socially
constructed and is fluid. Hence from this the validity of the data cannot be grounded in an
objective reality (Maxwell 2012).
An interpretivist perspective generally evaluates researches on the basis of following
grounds. It considers careful articulation of the research proposal (Miles et al. 2013). It considers
that the research is considered in a careful manner. The interpretivism follows the following
beliefs regarding the nature o the knowing and the reality (Maxwell 2012).
Relativist ontology refers to the fact that reality is constructed inter-subjectively with the
help of the understandings that has been developed socially or experientially. Whereas the
transactional epistemology refers to the fact that one cannot separate himself from what the
world knows (Fusch and Ness 2015).
Hence, the chosen research paradigm for this research proposal ought to be intepretivism
as the research question is based on the impact of emotions of making decisions in health care,
which requires sample interviews, and the qualitative analysis of the findings and finally
interpretation (Grbich 2012).