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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Other-Regarding"”.
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Two Essays of Other-Regarding Preferences' Influence on Social Decision Making
… investigates the influence of two representative other-regarding preferences on specified issues. The first chapter studies the preferred tax rate and labor supplies of voters in the presence of income inequality aversion in a two-stage redistribution game. The two-stage redistribution game …
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Self- and other-regarding reinforcement learning: Disruptions in mental disorders and oxytocin's modulating role in healthy people
… (RL) models to examine these disruptions in self-regarding learning (learning about rewards delivered to the learners themselves). A review of RL alterations associated with mental disorders in extant studies will be beneficial for uncovering the mechanisms of these health problems. Although …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… considers the well-being and emotions of others. Unlike traditional economics which routinely assumes that individuals care only about their own outcomes, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies which help us explore our social motivations. This dissertation …
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A Study of Human Decision-Making in Economic Games
… contains three essays on the impact of other-regarding behavior on human decision-making. Chapter II uses experimental methods to analyze the relative performance of a variety of compensation contracts. This study creates an environment in which individuals are paid via common payment …
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Online Anonymity and the Kantian Publicity Principle: Can the Internet Solve the Paradox of Tyranny?
Immanuel Kant’s publicity maxim states that other-regarding actions are wrong if their maxim is not compatible with their being made public. This has the effect of forbidding dissent or rebellion against tyranny, since rebels cannot make their intentions and plans public. However, new internet …
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Voltage Stability Analysis Using Simulated Synchrophasor Measurements
… indices were analyzed and compared against each other along with other well-known methods. Results show that their performances are coherent to each other regarding to voltage stability of the system; the indices can also predict voltage collapse as well as provide insight on other locations …
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Ethical considerations in the use of commercial agents in international student recruitment
… as having strayed from its public service role; others see this adaptation as relevant to a modern global society. Response to these influences is seen in current efforts to internationalize campuses and increase revenues by recruiting international students. As competition for international …
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Economic Comparisons Between an Even-Aged and an Uneven-Aged Loblolly Pine Silvicultural System
… hold opinions often in direct conflict with each other regarding the non-timber costs and benefits of even-aged and uneven-aged silviculture when considering wildlife, soil and water, and catastrophic damage events.
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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
… “constructive altruism”. This is a form of other-regarding ethics which allows for the concept of a non-giver, i.e. a person who has realised selflessness and has seen through the “illusion” of individuation. This person then takes it upon himself to construct the other so as to gain a focus …
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THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG OVEREXCITABILITY, SOCIAL COPING, AND BODY IMAGE DISSATISFACTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR GIFTED ADOLESCENTS
… 216 males (44.2%), 4 students identifying as "other" regarding gender (0.8%); one student did not respond to that question (0.2%), and they ranged in age from 14 to 20 (M = 16.6, SD = 1.2). The overall regression model was statistically significant, F(5, 469) = 9.31, p < .001, R2 = .09. The …
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A Survey of Drought Impacts and Mitigation Planning in Kentucky
… costly climate-related natural hazard. Unlike other climate-related natural hazards, droughts are usually long in duration and may cover a large region, the physical boundaries of areas affected by drought are sometimes arbitrary, and the impacts are sometimes difficult to identify. Climate …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
… are fundamental to risky decision making and other economic decision- making. Unlike traditional economics, which routinely assumes that individuals are endowed with stable preferences and try to maximize the expected utility when facing risky decision-making problems, behavioral economics and …
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Essays in Networks and Experimental Economics
… using standard behavioural models – such as other-regarding preferences, k-level reasoning, and quantal response equilibrium – but they are consistent with a model of behavioural attenuation. The third chapter, co-authored with Syngjoo Choi, Sanjeev Goyal, and Frederic Moisan, presents …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
… further augmented when we account for social and other-regarding preferences in individuals, which make them care about well-being of others. While social preferences are well documented in other economic environments, their effect on the formation, likelihood and size of coalitions to provide …
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An Assessment of the Perceptions of Secondary Special and General Education Teachers Working in Inclusive Settings in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… collaboratively in providing assistance to each other regarding students with disabilities. Both groups of special and general educators had a negative attitude towards educating: (6) most students with disabilities (regardless of the level of their disability) in the regular classroom; …
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USE OF MICROALGAE FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND BIOFUEL PRODUCTION: EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS ON THE CELLULAR RESPONSE
… they were significantly different from each other regarding water properties such as total dissolved solids and total organic carbon. They also had distinct microbial community structures. It was shown the flowback water samples contained mainly halophilic, anaerobic, and thermophilic species …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… I use experimental methods to study the otherwise unobservable labor market interactions, social norms and peer-effects in non-cognitive skills acquisition.</p> <p>In my first Chapter, I use experimental methods to better understand behavioral roots of corruption. Corruption is endemic to …
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Rafael Moneo: la complessità del vuoto. Dalle matrici formali dell'opera di Oteiza e Chillida
… resonances through which measuring it, on the other hand the architecture whose character is able to represent and to extend the time in which he is conceived, through the autonomy that is conferred to them from values. Following the trace characterized from this hypothesis, that is supported …