Accuracy and epistemic conservatism

Memory and epistemic conservatism

Balance sheet conservatism and audit reporting conservatism

1Division of Accounting, School of Business, NanyangBusiness School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2Leventhal School of Accounting,Marshall School of Business, University of SouthernCalifornia, USA Correspondence Clive Lennox, Leventhal School ofAccounting, Marshall School ofBusiness,University of SouthernCalifornia, 3670TrousdaleParkway, Los Angeles,CA90089,USA. Email: clennox@us...

Judgment Extremity and Accuracy Under Epistemic vs. Aleatory Uncertainty

David Tannenbaum,a Craig R. Fox,b Gülden Ülkümen c aDavid Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; bAnderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024; cMarshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Contact: [email protected] (DT); [email protected]...

Judgment Extremity and Accuracy under Epistemic versus Aleatory Uncertainty

People view uncertain events as either knowable in principle (epistemic uncertainty), as fundamentally random (aleatory uncertainty), or as some mixture of the two. We show that people make more extreme probability judgments (i.e., closer to 0 or 1) for events they view as entailing more epistemic uncertainty and less aleatory uncertainty. We demonstrate this pattern in a domain where there is ...

Conservatism, Liberalism and Nationalism:

SCIENCE CONTINUES It was no just in relationship to commerce, industry and social welfare, however, that the great scientific achievements of the nineteenth century had an impact. By this time the perspectives of the Enlightenment had so affected both philosophy and science that the climate was more favorable than ever for asking totally new kinds of questions and for challenging old assumption...