A Proposal to Construct 'Behavioral Insurance Theory'

"Medicover": a proposal for national health insurance.

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

Behavioral optimal insurance

The present work studies the optimal insurance policy offered by an insurer adopting a proportional premiumprinciple to an insuredwhose decision-making behavior ismodeled by Kahneman and Tversky’s Cumulative Prospect Theory with convex probability distortions. We show that, under a fixed premium rate, the optimal insurance policy is a generalized insurance layer (that is, either an insurance la...

Descriptive Control Theory: A Proposal

Logic is playing an increasingly important role in the engineering of real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, but mostly in the form of posterior verification and high-level analysis. The core methodology in the design of real-world systems consists mainly of control theory and numerical analysis, and has remained mostly free of logic and formal approaches. As a result, besides facing ex...

Emotions in Personal Construct Theory: a Review

George Kelly claimed that there were no emotions in Personal Construct Theory (PCT). The present paper notes that Kelly did define four important emotions and reviews the work by McCoy in extending the range of emotions that can be explained by PCT. In addition, the theories of personality formulated by non-PCT psychologists (Paul McReynolds and Prescott Lecky), which are consistent with PCT an...