Personal Autonomy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Family matters": a conceptual framework for genetic testing in children. 
  • A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint. 
  • A motivational interview promotes retention of blood donors with high internal motivation. 
  • Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme. 
  • Adherence, shared decision-making and patient autonomy. 
  • Adolescent and young adult cancer: a revolution in evolution? 
  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • Afterword: Giving good advice: it is not what doctors say, but how they say it. 
  • Age and sex differences in prospective effects of health goals and motivations on daily leisure-time physical activity. 
  • An automated motivational interview promotes donation intention and self-efficacy among experienced whole blood donors. 
  • Applying self-determination theory to the blood donation context: The blood donor competence, autonomy, and relatedness enhancement (Blood Donor CARE) trial. 
  • Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Caregivers as money managers for adults with severe mental illness: how treatment providers can help. 
  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Communitarians and medical ethicists: or "why I am none of the above". 
  • Concealed medicines for people with schizophrenia: a U.S. perspective. 
  • Consumer views of representative payee use of disability funds to leverage treatment adherence. 
  • Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six 
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders during surgery: ethical foundations for institutional policies in the United States. 
  • Educating Resident and Fellow Physicians on the Ethics of Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Empowerment Failure: How Shortcomings in Physician Communication Unwittingly Undermine Patient Autonomy. 
  • Enhancing physical function in HIV-infected older adults: A randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Ethical challenges in the new world of maternal-fetal surgery. 
  • Ethics in human subjects research: do incentives matter? 
  • Experiential, autonomic, and neural responses during threat anticipation vary as a function of threat intensity and neuroticism. 
  • For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control. 
  • Framing for success: nocebo effects in thoracic surgery. 
  • Free will without consciousness? 
  • Future orientation in the self-system: possible selves, self-regulation, and behavior. 
  • Genetic testing: clinical and personal utility. 
  • Government intervention and the nation's diet: the slippery slope of inaction. 
  • Gunmen and Ice Cream Cones: Harm to Autonomy and Harm to Persons. 
  • How Can Adult Children Influence Parents' Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase Decisions? 
  • Hypnotizing Libet: Readiness potentials with non-conscious volition. 
  • Hypo-egoic self-regulation: exercising self-control by diminishing the influence of the self. 
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Self-Scheduling in a Hospital System. 
  • In situ monitoring of health in older adults: technologies and issues. 
  • Information Order for Periviable Counseling: Does It Make a Difference? 
  • Interpreting the effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment: a conceptual model. 
  • Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: some thoughts and concerns. 
  • Maternal Sense of Control During Childbirth and Infant Feeding Method. 
  • Maternal autonomy and child health care utilization in India: results from the National Family Health Survey. 
  • Medical ethics in the primary care setting. 
  • Medical, ethical and legal issues regarding thrombolytic therapy in the Jehovah's Witness. 
  • Mind the child: using interactive technology to improve child involvement in decision making about life-limiting illness. 
  • Mothers' and fathers' autonomy-relevant parenting: longitudinal links with adolescents' externalizing and internalizing behavior. 
  • Navigating risks and professional roles: research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer young people with intellectual disabilities. 
  • Neutrality, autonomy and mental health: a closer look. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Patient and Caregiver Opinions of Motivational Interviewing Techniques In Role-Played Palliative Care Conversations: A Pilot Study. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Perceived Empowerment, Social Support, and Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities. 
  • Personal responsibility and obesity: a constructive approach to a controversial issue. 
  • Personality and self-regulation: trait and information-processing perspectives. 
  • Perspectives of Adult Rheumatologists Regarding Family Planning Counseling and Care: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Physician empathy and listening: associations with patient satisfaction and autonomy. 
  • Physician-assisted suicide and advance directives concerning life support. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives: a tool for consumer empowerment and recovery. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 1--history, rationale, consequences. 
  • Reexpressing Parenthood 
  • Reframing Consent for Clinical Research: A Function-Based Approach. 
  • Regulatory accessibility and social influences on state self-control. 
  • Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices. 
  • Seeking safer sexual spaces: queer and trans young people labeled with intellectual disabilities and the paradoxical risks of restriction. 
  • Seeking structure in social organization: compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy. 
  • Sociotropy, autonomy, and personality disorder criteria in psychiatric patients. 
  • Sports medicine and ethics. 
  • Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic. 
  • Strength and safety in numbers: considering the social implications of regulatory focus. 
  • Supported Decision Making: A Concept at the Margins vs. Center of Autonomy? 
  • The Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Postsecondary Students: An Analysis of Self-Determination. 
  • The blood donor identity survey: a multidimensional measure of blood donor motivations. 
  • The child's interests and the case for the permissibility of male infant circumcision. 
  • The concept of voluntary consent. 
  • The cost of self-protection: threat response and performance as a function of autonomous and controlled motivations. 
  • The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts. 
  • The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. 
  • The experimental imperative. 
  • The limits of proxy decisionmaking for incompetents. 
  • The morality of organization versus organized members: Organizations are attributed more control and responsibility for negative outcomes than are equivalent members. 
  • The period of untreated psychosis before treatment initiation: a qualitative study of family members' perspectives. 
  • Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine. 
  • Understanding the personal and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directives: a qualitative perspective. 
  • When clinical medicine collides with religion. 
  • Who/se we are: baptism as personhood. 
  • Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide. 
  • Young adult couples' decision making regarding emergency contraceptive pills 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine