The Methodology of Social Judgement Theory

“…This involved re-running the regression analysis excluding each elder financial abuse cue (or set of dummy variables) in turn to identify the change in R 2 that could be attributable to each cue. Prior to running regression analysis a histogram of the standardized residuals for average certainty of abuse and likelihood of action judgements across the participants determined a normal distribution of scores for both measures (Cooksey, 1996). JFC 21,1 Table III provides the descriptive characteristics of average certainty of abuse and likelihood of action scores for the finance professionals (n ¼ 70) in response to the elder financial abuse case scenarios.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One cue level is chosen as a reference category and is excluded from the analysis (Cooksey, 1996). This then becomes the point of comparison for the different dummy variable categories (Hardy, 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

Detection and prevention of financial abuse against elders

Harries

Davies

Gilhooly

et al. 2013

Journal of Financial Crime

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(2015),"Finance-seeking behaviour and outcomes for small-and medium-sized enterprises", International Journal of Managerial Finance, Vol. 11 Iss 4 pp. 513-530 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMF-01-2013-0005 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by All users group For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Purpose -This paper reports on banking and finance professionals' decision making in the context of elder financial abuse. The aim was to identify the case features that influence when abuse is identified and when action is taken. Design/methodology/approach -Banking and finance professionals (n ¼ 70) were shown 35 financial abuse case scenarios and were asked to judge how certain they were that the older person was being abused and the likelihood of taking action.Findings -Three case features significantly influenced certainty of financial abuse: the nature of the financial problem presented, the older person's level of mental capacity and who was in charge of the client's money. In cases where the older person was more confused and forgetful, there was increased suspicion that financial abuse was taking place. Finance professionals were less certain that financial abuse was occurring if the older person was in charge of his or her own finances. Originality/value -The research findings have been used to develop freely available online training resources to promote professionals' decision making capacity (www.elderfinancialabuse.co.uk). The resources have been advocated for use by Building Societies Association as well as CIFAS, the UK's Fraud Prevention Service.

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“…This theory includes the two parallel systems in the lens model (Brunswik, 1956), that is, the external " environmental system" and the internal " sensory system" , which interact with parameters of decision making to describe people' s cognitive decision making behavior under an ambiguous environment of causal networks (Cooksey, 1996). Evaluation and assessment of the decision maker could identify the cognitive conflicts caused by different or inaccurate cognition.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the data of participants were This study adopted Social Judgment Theory (Brunswik, 1956;Cooksey, 1996) to examine and analyze the cognition and attitudes of individuals who were affected by policies related to policy resources allocated by Kaohsiung City Government. Bobrow and Dryzek (1987) suggested that policies are not driven by methodologies, but by arguments and subjective…”

Section: Theoratical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%