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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Choice Situations"”.
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Organizational Decision-Making: An Exploration of Binary Choice Situations in Bank Loan Decisions
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The Possibility of Normative Moral Decision Making Artificial Intelligence and its Effects on the Practical Nature of Morality.
… our moral beliefs or judgments in specified choice situations. This paper explores the potential of such AI-technologies to be normative for its users and how that may affect the practice of moral decision making in specified choice situations. Methods: An account of the practical nature of …
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Attracting Applicants with Corporate Social Responsibility: A Social Dilemma Perspective
… how CSR affects applicant attraction in job choice situations. Previous research has shown that CSR positively affects applicant attraction in job choice situations, but less is known about the relative importance of each CSR dimension in applicant attraction. Categorizing CSR into four …
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Experiments on emotions, matching, and decision-making
… influence decisions and beliefs in two classical choice situations: a dictator game and an effort task.
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Gender Terms and Normative Significance
In this paper I will address a puzzle about normative significance of gender terms. On the one hand, gender is tied to many normative judgments, and questions about gender make a difference in what one should do. On the other hand, everyday use of gender terms is in flux, and there is not a …
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Learning How Humans Play Board Games with GPT-4IAR
… experiments such as two-alternative forced choice situations, and has relatively recently broken into more naturalistic settings with the help of computational modeling and games. Importantly, these computational models aim to be interpretable, meaning that they are crafted in a way that …
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Understanding Social Behaviour - Macaque behaviour in coordination and cooperation games and the encoding of inequity in striatum
… some sessions in which one of the animals made choices with varying rewards for self and other. From these results, I attempted to characterise behaviour with regards to own reward and inequity in choice situations. Inequity has been considered a contributing factor in explaining cooperation …
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Developing advanced econometric frameworks for modeling multidimensional choices : an application to integrated land-use activity based model framework
… framework by focusing on the modeling of choices that are influenced by land-use and travel environment attributes. An accurate characterization of activity-travel patterns requires explicit consideration of the land-use and travel environment (referred to as travel environment from here …
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Reinforcement Learning and Economic Decision-making for Nutrient Rewards in Rhesus Monkeys
… subjective values of foods support adaptive food choices to maintain nutritional homeostasis. Here, I propose nutrients as biological sources of food values that link sensory food properties to nutrient decision-making. To investigate how economic values for food rewards derive from their …
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Incorporating Perceptions, Learning Trends, Latent Classes, and Personality Traits in the Modeling of Driver Heterogeneity in Route Choice Behavior
… heterogeneity is addressed via latent class choice models. Last, personality traits were found significant in all estimated models. The first three adopted perspectives were modeled as functions of variables of driver demographics, personality traits, and choice situation characteristics. The …
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Instrument choice in environmental policy: a comparative study of pollution taxes and tradable pollution rights in British Columbia, Germany, and the United States
Current theories of instrument choice in environmental policy suggest that policy makers choose policy instruments based on the distribution of costs and benefits in society. It is postulated that policy makers will select those policy instruments which confer concentrated benefits on interest …
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Making decisions under conflict with a continuous mind: from micro to macro time scales
… has focused on the final outcome of choice situations (Townsend & Busemeyer, 1995). A very recent approach, called neuroeconomics, started out to investigate what happens behind the scenes of a final decision. Using modern neuroimaging methods, many neuroeconomists explain decision …
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Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
Almost everything that we do involves a choice. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development and application of quantitative statistical methods to study choices made by individuals with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of how choices are made and also to …
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Fostering and Capturing Children’s Inner Motivation to Learn in the Early Primary Classroom in England
… are in teacher-directed, independent or free choice situations) with engagement. Children were significantly more engaged in free choice settings compared to whole class teacher-directed settings. However, there was a large amount of remaining variation and I discuss the implications this has …