Showing Your Value

Your Effort is Showing! Pupil Dilation Reveals Memory Heuristics

The Value of Knowing Your Enemy

Many auction settings implicitly or explicitly require that bidders are treated equally exante. This may be because discrimination is philosophically or legally impermissible, or because it is practically difficult to implement or impossible to enforce. We study so-called anonymous auctions to understand the revenue tradeoffs and to develop simple anonymous auctions that are approximately optim...

Your House Just Doubled in Value ?

the United States is increasingly becoming a country of homeowners. As reported recently by the Census bureau, close to 70 percent of households now own their primary residence. homeownership is no longer just an American dream; watering lawns, sweeping sidewalks and cleaning drain gutters is no longer the sole privilege of middle-income and affluent households. With the rise in the homeownersh...

A Case Showing the Apparent Great Value of Cholera Inoculation

Consistently Showing Your Best Side? Intra-individual Consistency in #Selfie Pose Orientation

Painted and photographic portraits of others show an asymmetric bias: people favor their left cheek. Both experimental and database studies confirm that the left cheek bias extends to selfies. To date all such selfie studies have been cross-sectional; whether individual selfie-takers tend to consistently favor the same pose orientation, or switch between multiple poses, remains to be determined...