On not Yielding to Temptation

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Temptation in the background: non-consummatory exposure to food temptation enhances self-regulation in boys but not in girls

The abundance of calorie-dense low-nutrient food in everyday life raises the question as to how children deal with such opportunities. We investigate whether pre-exposure to the object of temptation in a situation that discourages consumption boosts children's ability to resist similar temptation subsequently. We show that 7-12-year-old boys, but not girls, demonstrate increased resistance to a...

L Eads Us Not into Temptation : K Nowledge

This paper explores how uncertainty reduction due to increased forecasting accuracy, which is one of main benefits associated with the adoption of Business Intelligence (BI) systems, will affect the behavior of knowledge workers and how this change in their behavior will impact the appropriation of benefits from BI investments. The study uses a micro-economic model in order to show that higher ...

On Yielding and Jointly Yielding Entries of Euclidean Distance Matrices

Abstract An n × n matrix D is a Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) if there exist p, . . . , pn in some Euclidean space such that dij = ||pi − pj ||2 for all i, j = 1, . . . , n. Let D be an EDM and let Eij be the n×n symmetric matrix with 1’s in the ijth and jith entries and 0’s elsewhere. We say that [lij , uij ] is the yielding interval of entry dij if it holds that D+ tE ij is an EDM if and on...

Temptation 1

This survey discusses decision–theoretic models of agents who seek to constrain and regulate their own future behavior. The common theme is that the decision makers’ future utility is affected by unwanted temptations. The wish to eliminate temptations from future option sets creates a preference for commitment. The surveyed models explore the relationship between temptations and other psycholog...