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Showing 1 to 20 of 1916 for “"Biases"”.
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Memory biases in worry
… empirical literature relating to memory biases in Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is reviewed. Information processing models have suggested that anxious individuals should be characterised by a memory bias towards threat. However, other models have proposed that memory biases may not …
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
Psychological biases in consumer testing may lead to misinterpretation of results and lower experimental power. Reports on various hedonic scales associated with psychological biases induced by sample presentation are limited in the literature. An appropriate experimental protocol could enable …
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Biases in segmenting non-concatenative morphology
… necessity and sufficiency conditions of three biases that may be hypothesised to govern the learning of such a segmentation: a bias towards a parsimonious morpheme lexicon with a power-law (Zipfian) distribution over tokens drawn from this lexicon, as has successfully been used in Bayesian …
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Artificial perceptions : biases, fictionalities, and signifiers
… in Artificial Intelligence, and with it, biases and fictionalities. Through a variety of examples, speculative arguments, and performances, this study explores how biases are produced and fictionalities created through shifting signifiers. This thesis has a dual voice. It is generated in …
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Social inductive biases for reinforcement learning
How can we build machines that collaborate and learn more seamlessly with humans, and with each other? How do we create fairer societies? How do we minimize the impact of information manipulation campaigns, and fight back? How do we build machine learning algorithms that are more sample efficient …
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Biases toward defendants in joint criminal trials
Under the Criminal Code Compilation Act 1913 (WA), any number of individuals may be joined as co-defendants in a single trial, fanning a situation known as a joint trial. The charge/s against each defendant are considered separately and given a separate verdict by the jury. There is considerable …
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Biases toward pregnant women in the workplace
The current study investigates reactions toward pregnant women in the workplace. Participants in an online study watched a video of an applicant (depicted as either pregnant or nonpregnant) for a professional development grant. Additionally, the applicant was either portrayed as stereotypically …
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Cognitive Biases in Alcohol and Marijuana Users
The current study investigated the influence of marijuana and alcohol consumption and craving on a primed word stem completion (WSC) task. One hundred participants were randomly assigned to one of three prime conditions: Substance-prime, neutral-prime, and no-prime. In the substance- and …
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Cognitive Biases in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Do Interpretive and Judgment Biases Distinguish Anxious Youth from their Non-anxious Peers?
… purpose of this study was to examine cognitive biases in clinically anxious children compared to normal children and to determine if cognitive biases could discriminate anxious youth from non-anxious youth. Two specific cognitive biases were the focus of the present study—interpretive biases …
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The Disposition Effect, Trading Biases, and Cognitive Reappraisal
… patterns of behaviour are regarded as trading biases. This thesis investigates two main themes that follow from the observation of trading biases in financial markets, both ultimately related to helping investors make better investment decisions. First, to what extent do individual investors …
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Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies
<p>Implicit biases are unconscious associations between a group and a given attribute. Thus, individuals may have no conscious prejudice and even openly disclaim bigotry, but nonetheless harbor subconscious biases that subtly shape their behaviors across many domains including hiring and promotion …
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Injecting Inductive Biases into Distributed Representations of Text
… properties into embeddings, use inductive biases. First, we use Knowledge Graphs (KGs) as a data-based inductive bias to derive the semantic representation of words and sentences. The explicit semantics that is encoded in a structure of a KG allows us to acquire the semantic representations …
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On the Inductive Biases of Conditional Diffusion Models
… particular, we are interested in the inductive biases of conditional diffusion models which predispose them to certain forms of interpolation in regions outside the support of the training data. We observe that neural networks are capable of learning qualitatively different forms of …
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Biases in Looking Behaviour during Visual Decision Making Tasks
… experiments we used eye-tracking to investigate biases in looking behaviour during visual decision making tasks. In Experiment 1, participants viewed arrays of images of photographic art and decided which image was preferred (from a set of either two or eight alternatives). To analyze gaze …
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Visual attention and cognitive biases to threat in anxiety
Anxiety disorders are prevalent throughout the lifespan and are associated with a number of negative effects on an individual’s quality of life. A large body of research has adopted a cognitive approach to explore factors that are involved in the development and maintenance of elevated anxiety. …
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The effect of racial confirmation biases on whistleblowing intent
… whether racial stereotypes and confirmation biases make an individual more likely to blow the whistle on a Black coworker than a White coworker for the same wrongdoing. I also examined the potential moderating effect of the moral intensity of the issue (i.e., level of harm), given that other …
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Increasing an individuals trait gratitude by modifying interpretation biases
<p>The purpose of this research was to determine if a person’s disposition of gratitude can be modified through Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM) techniques. This research should help us understand the causal relationship between interpretation-bias and gratitude. Because gratitude is vital to …
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