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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Subjective beliefs"”.
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Decomposing trust into risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs: An experimental analysis
… factors such as risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs may confound this measure of trust, thereby questioning the validity of using the 'amount sent’ to elicit people’s levels of trust. To understand these factors, we designed and conducted an incentive-compatible economic experiment …
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Hazard Perception Research: A Critique and Proposal (Fishbein, Tornado)
… is a function of his hazard perception (his subjective beliefs about the hazard). Yet empirical evidence on the perception-behavior relationship has been contradictory. Further, the behavioral impacts of such other commonly studied variables as hazard experience or socioeconomic …
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Bayesian Analysis, Endogenous Data,and Convergence of Beliefs
… agent makes decisions based upon his beliefs about a parameter that controls rewards. While some choices may generate higher short-term rewards, other choices may provide information that allows the agent to learn about the parameter, thereby potentially increasing future rewards. …
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Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
… often ended up merely projecting their subjective beliefs onto nature itself. To prevent this epistemic misunderstanding, I suggest, philosophers began to emphasise the need for what they called “objectivity.” This meant attempting to regulate the unconscious biases of subjects through …
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The educational and labour market expectations of adolescents and young adults
… participation in higher education. Children's subjective beliefs of the future (their “expectations”) are a consistent theme within these distinctively different approaches. Researchers from both disciplines might argue that children's low or mistaken expectations (of future income, financial …
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Contextualising youth emotional health and wellbeing: teachers’ experiences, perceptions and views about their role working with young people, who present with emotional difficulties
… They offer an illumination into some of the subjective beliefs held by staff and directed thinking to a realistic improvement for current school practices to meet the practical and emotional needs of staff and pupils.
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Consumers' purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty: three essays on food authenticity
… risk and uncertainty. Specifically, the role of subjective beliefs, risk and ambiguity attitudes, and information. I focus on food purchasing decisions with uncertainty about the quality generated by food fraud.<br/><br/>The first essay uses an artefactual field experiment to explore bidding …
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An exploratory study of new media adoption for participatory programming in southwest Nigeria’s radio stations
… was used to examine individual journalists’ subjective beliefs about new technologies and normative roles. A hundred and forty nine (149) broadcast journalists were drawn from 18 FM radio stations in four southwest states of Nigeria using multi-stage purposive and snowballing techniques. …
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Essays on uncertainty in economics
… how markets deal with it. Uncertainty is about subjective beliefs, and thus it often comes with heterogeneous beliefs that may be present temporarily or even forever. The first essay analyzes the effect of uncertainty, and the associated belief heterogeneity, on financial contracts and asset …
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Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
… policy choice using data on individuals' subjective beliefs, risk preference, reckless driving, insurer, and insurance policy characteristics merged with insurer-specific quality ratings distributed by independent organizations. We find a zero correlation between ex post accident risk and …
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Three essays in spatial econometrics
… been proposed based on economic theory and the subjective beliefs of researchers, - including simple cross-sectional regression models, panel data models, time series models and recently many types of spatial models. Unfortunately the estimate of growth convergence rate under these different …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
… First, it analyzes the impact of job seekers’ beliefs about upcoming ALMPs programs on the effectiveness of realized treatments later during the unemployment spell. This provides important insights with respect to the job search process and relates potential anticipation effects (on the job …
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The Interaction Between Learning and Effort-Based Decision-Making: Mechanisms, Structural Brain Correlates, and Links to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
… exertion and an alteration in the integration of subjective beliefs about probability and effort choice. Chapter 5 aims to further understand the effects of neuropsychiatric symptoms on learning, effort decision-making and their interaction by recruiting a population of anxious/depressed …
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An integrated use of tools to acquire knowledge elements and support decisions in innovations processes
… mapping aims to provide a tool for revealing subjective beliefs in a meaningful way so that they can be examined not only by the individual for whom the map is constructed, but also by other individuals and groups (Eden, 1992). Cognitive mapping is a technique for knowledge elicitation and …