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Bridging Time Preferences and Social Preferences
… volume of research has been conducted on time preferences and social preferences, limited studies have investigated whether there is any interaction and/or trade-off between these two important preferences in human decision-making. In this work, we fill this literature gap by investigating how …
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Essays in Discrimination, Informational Preferences, and Social Preferences Under Uncertainty
… to explore discrimination, informational preferences, and social preferences under uncertainty using methodology commonly found in experimental economics. The abstracts for each piece of work are as follows: Chapter 2: The Effect of George Floyd Protests on Experimental Evaluations We …
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Homeschool Counseling Preferences
… homeschooled clients' possible counseling preferences, and for recommendations on effective ways to expand counseling services to homeschoolers based on family preferences and any experienced gap between preferred and actual counseling services. </p>
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Preferences and Cooperation
Chapter 1: Evolution of reciprocator preferences when agents can pay for information A benchmark result in the evolutionary games literature is that a preference for reciprocity will evolve if preferences are observable (at zero cost), since reciprocators can cooperate with each other rather than …
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Dynamic scheduling with preferences
… of these processes to meet evolving objectives. Preferences play a significant role in human decision-making, particularly as they relate to deciding on what actions to take, how to accomplish them, and when to act. In this thesis, we address the problem of how to generate adaptable schedules to …
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Inflation, Institutions and Preferences
Contains fulltext : 147045.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Modeling users' powertrain preferences
… construct a system that can determine a drivers preferences and goals and perform appropriate actions to aid the driver achieving his goals and improve the quality of his road behavior. Because the recommendation problem could be achieved effectively once we know the driver's intention, in this …
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Estimating Residential ESG Preferences
… constraints, lack of awareness, or sustainable preferences. In practice, these elements are not easily separated from each other. This vignette study investigates whether sustainable preferences are the barrier to adoption by controlling for awareness and cost constraints. To control, survey …
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Analysing Risk Preferences and Time Preferences with respect to Smoking Status and Smoking Intensity
… between smoking and factors such as risk preferences and time preferences has been the subject of a growing body of literature. This paper evaluates experimental data from smokers and nonsmokers at the University of Cape Town collected in 2016 and 2017. Maximum likelihood estimation is …
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Making Sense of Unexpected Preferences
… models to sensibly describe what kinds of preferences political actors will or actually do hold when existing theory offers no insight. The first two papers use evolutionary game theory to predict ways in which politicians, artificially selected on the basis of good performance to remain in …
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Preferences in answer set programming
… most intensively studied one is the modelling of preferences in ASP. They constitute a natural and effective way of selecting preferred solutions among a plethora of solutions for a problem. For example, preferences have been successfully used for timetabling, auctioning, and product …
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Revealed and Hidden Social Preferences
<p>This study investigates individuals’ social preferences by examining the impact of group identity on economic decision-making through Dictator Game and Lying Dictator Game experiments conducted in different cultural contexts. The research compares students from Chapman University (USA) and Wuhan …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… explanation of such cases is that people's preferences may "adapt" to harmful or unacceptable circumstances that they see as unavoidable, so that they come to endorse states of affairs that they should rightly resist. Yet the concept of adaptive preferences is highly controversial: while its …
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HIERARCHICAL PREFERENCES AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
… Chapter 3 presents the framework over which preferences about different activities are defined. Preference relationships are assumed to be rational, transitive, and constant over time and location. In addition, satiation in a particular consumption activity is assumed to exist and the ranking …
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Adaptive preferences and children's options
… explanation of such cases is that people's preferences may "adapt" to harmful or unacceptable circumstances that they see as unavoidable, so that they come to endorse states of affairs that they should rightly resist. Yet the concept of adaptive preferences is highly controversial: while its …
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Representation: preferences, priorities, and tradeoffs
… the role of innumeracy in shaping people’s preferences for representation. I find that maximizing satisfaction for both minorities and the majority is indeed possible. Proportional or higher descriptive representation compensates for unfavorable substantive representation for minorities, and …
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Petals, pigments and pollinator preferences
… shown that previous observations of the nectar preferences of bumblebees conducted at laboratory scale are relevant at nectar concentrations and quantities found naturally in crop plants. Another floral trait which is highly relevant to pollinators is floral colour. Parallel to the strawberry …
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Implicit Learning of Semantic Preferences
… of semantic implicit learning, using semantic preferences of novel verbs as a test case. Implicit learning refers to the phenomenon of learning without intending to learn or awareness that one is learning at all. Semantic preference (or selectional preference – as preferred in computational …
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Clovette : predicting preferences for flowers
Flowers are often gifted for major holidays and personal holidays, for both personal and corporate purposes. Today's solutions in the market are abundant but scattered, with many players offering products of varying quality at a range of price points. To command higher prices and stay relevant in …
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