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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"monetary incentive"”.
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A Field Experiment to Test the Effects of Automated Feedback and Monetary Incentive on Speeding Behavior
… Twenty of these 40 individuals experienced a monetary incentive system during their second and third weeks of driving. Ten participants were in a control group that experienced neither system. Results indicated that the incentive system resulted in dramatic reductions in speeding over the …
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The Effects of Free and Forced Choice with a Time Gradient and Monetary Incentive in a Serial Learning Task
… time gradients of five and eight seconds using monetary incentive on a serial learning task. A series of nonsense symbols were successively presented to thirty-six subjects whose task was to learn the serial with the least number of exposures.
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Effect of Non-Monetary Incentives on Women's Competitive Inclination: Experimental evidence from Ancona, Italy
<p>This study investigates how monetary incentives versus non-monetary incentives affect women’s decision to enter a competitive environment. This study was conducted in Ancona Italy, in a controlled laboratory experiment with a total of 60 participants; of which 29 were male and 31 were female. …
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Reducing Substance Use with Implementation Intentions: A Treatment for Health Risk Behaviors
… an in-laboratory implementation intention and/or monetary incentive condition during each of four experimental sessions. The combined implementation intention and monetary incentive condition resulted in the greatest delay to smoking initiation. In Study 2, individuals with alcohol use disorder …
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts which …
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The Detection of Neuropsychological Malingering
… of simulating malingerers who were offered a monetary incentive to feign symptoms of a head injury, with the responses of head injured groups both with and without litigation, a forensic parole group, and an honest-responding control group. The following six neuropsychological measures were …
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Cognitive modeling analysis of decision-making processes in young adults at-risk and not at-risk for alcohol dependence
… Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Drinking behavior and monetary incentive were examined as predictors of performance on the IGT. No differences were found among groups when data were analyzed using traditional behavioral analyses. However, when the Expectancy-Valence Learning model was applied to the …
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Don't forget to remember: motivation and environmental cues affect prospective memory performance
… This study examined these relationships using a monetary incentive to moderate motivation, and explored how metacognition was affected. College students (N = 75) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (i.e., prosocial, self-interested, or standard). Eye-tracking technology collected …
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Effects of alcohol and error criticality on alphanumeric target acquisition
… trial at the discretion of the participant. A monetary incentive/penalty system was used to define low- and high-criticality search trials. Search time, touch accuracy, the number of trials completed, percent "give-ups," and hand travel time were all significantly degraded by the alcohol …
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Essays on human capital
… likely to perform better on the test, while the monetary incentive have no significant impact on test performance. Furthermore, regarding the implementation of the test we find that overall students perform better, while having the test after an experimental session negatively impacts test …
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Processing resources, cautiousness, memory self -efficacy, and age differences in free recall
… mixed design. Cautiousness was manipulated by monetary incentive and punishment. Age-related reduction in working memory capacity was simulated by using a the concurrent digit load during learning. Age-related slowness was simulated by using words with multiple syllables. Participants' speed of …
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Functional organisation of behavioural inhibitory control mechanisms in cortico-basal ganglia circuitry: implications for stimulant use disorder.
… and in humans, premature responses in the Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task and the stop-signal reaction time task. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 focus on individual differences in behavioural flexibility in rats while Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 consider how inhibitory control …
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… estimate minimum penalties that would provide no monetary incentive for the average U.S. apparel manufacturing firm to violate the minimum wage and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants. The minimum per-violation penalties that were estimated to deter violation of the minimum wage are 8 to 28 times …
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
… suggests that the EAJA may be providing a monetary incentive for these organizations to institute litigation against land management agencies, further research is needed to understand the degree to which this is happening.
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The effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives on respondent attrition in longitudinal survey
… surveys. In order to explore the effects of incentives on attrition, this research project studies the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives on explicit (subject says s/he does not want to be part of the study) and implicit (non-response) attrition. In particular, this study uses …
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A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Controllable Electricity Production via Biogas Plants
… for a controlled electricity pro-duction monetary incentive systems are needed. As a potential market the Day-Ahead Auction of the EPEX Spot Se were identified. The concept development takes place via a parameter study, thereby various plant con-cepts are defined by varying the plant …
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Effects of reward system on teacher performance: a case of three secondary schools in Kasama District,Zambia
… types of reward system, the study revealed that, monetary incentive that is performance-based ranked the highest (51%), followed by monetary monthly incentive (32%) arid social care 15%. The study further revealed that none of the teacher respondents felt that promotion as a reward had no effect …
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Effects of reward system on teacher performance: a case of three secondary schools in Kasama District,Zambia
… types of reward system, the study revealed that, monetary incentive that is performance-based ranked the highest (51%), followed by monetary monthly incentive (32%) arid social care 15%. The study further revealed that none of the teacher respondents felt that promotion as a reward had no effect …
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Neurocognitive risk and protective factors in addictive disorders
… and family history of stimulant exposure on a monetary incentive delay task. It is also under debate whether the neurocognitive differences seen in stimulant-dependent individuals are unique to substance abuse, or if parallel changes in behaviour and neurobiology are present in similar …
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Low-income housing in Kampala, Uganda : a strategy package to overcome barriers for delivering housing opportunities affordable to the urban poor
… low-income families. This strategy provides a monetary incentive for private developers to bring their project management efficiencies into the low-income market and facilitates the government's need to placate social and political pressure to improve the local housing sector's performance for …
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