Interactive Decisions from CBDSM

By clicking on an interactive decision, you can get hands-on experience with CBDSM's innovative research in behavioral health and medical decision making. Each scenario turns a recent research finding into a decision that a patient or a policy maker might face.

In our interactive decisions, we:
  • replicate actual research surveys
  • display alternative graphical representations of health risks
  • present choices in bioethics
  • explore emotions related to health
  • and much more.

Clinical topics range widely and have included paraplegia, renal disease, immunization, infertility, HIV/AIDS, cancer, women's health, organ transplants, and colostomy.

CBDSM's interactive decisions can be controversial, but they're always stimulating. Read, decide, click - and get a full commentary on the implications of your decisions!

A full archive of our interactive decisions can be found here.

The CBDSM interactive Decision of the Month:

Is it Disgusting?

People vary in their attitudes toward physical disabilities. Give us your reactions, and we'll tell you the results of surveys of the general public—and of actual patients.

The Privileged Choices

What's the difference between opting in and opting out of an activity? Who decides if people will be put automatically into one category or another? Click this interactive decision to learn how default options work.