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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Information Avoidance"”.
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance
… System and the effect of meat consumption on information avoidance. The first chapter is the analysis of the effect of bribery solicitation on behavior change. Bribe solicitation is a critical but overlooked part of corruption. This paper uses a one-shot online experiment between citizens and …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
… conservatism, disgust sensitivity, and disease avoidance. Yet, despite this link, recent research suggests that political conservatism is negatively associated with attention to, and knowledge about, COVID-19. The current work draws on the intersection of moral foundations theory and …
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Extraction of Input Parameters for the Theory of Radiative Energy Transfer Using Deconvolution.
… central-limit theorem and discussion of loss of information avoidance during convolution is another novel contribution. Further novelty lies in the modification of the two methods to suit implementation on the measurement data from radiowaves impacting on vegetation volumes. As a result of these …
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Essays in Behavioral, Health and Financial Economics
… but people may not want to be confronted with information that implicates their lifestyle as a cause of large-scale suffering. We present a laboratory experiment designed to test for such information avoidance. Using a formal model of cognitive dissonance, we will price people's value for …
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The psychological mechanism underlying the effects of cancer information on screening intention: focusing on cancer-related affect and cognition
It has been found that cancer information exposure is positively associated with the adoption of healthy behaviors, such as cancer screening. However, the process through which cancer information positively influences cancer screening has not been fully investigated. The present study expected that …
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Empirical Tests of Non-standard Preferences for Beliefs and Information
… is their focus on preferences for beliefs and information. Chapter 1, Biased Recall and The Dynamics of Beliefs: Evidence From Schools, uses reduced form and structural methods to test theories of motivated beliefs in the field. These theories predict biased recall of ego-relevant information …
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Three essays evaluating food and nutrition policies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… is concerned with the phenomenon of invormation avoidance. Several studies suggest that consumers do not always value more information about the product, and they sometimes even try to avoid receiving new information. This might be due to self-image or social image concerns. However, little has …