What Makes an Individual Invest in Stocks?

What makes an individual patient different from others?

The biologic mechanisms which result in alveolar bone loss have been well investigated but they are unique to each individual patient. Evidence based decision making (EBDM) is based on statistical and or epidemiological data generally gathered through systematic meta-reviews of randomized clinical trials. Personalized periodontal therapy, on the other hand is based a better understanding of hea...

What Makes an Insight Problem? 1 Running Head: What Makes an Insight Problem? What Makes an Insight Problem? 2

Four experiments investigated transformation problems with insight characteristics. Experiment 1 examined two versions of the six-coin problem with different solution properties. Performance on one version with a concrete and visualizable solution followed predictions derived from assuming a hill-climbing heuristic. The determinant of performance on the second version, in which the solution pot...

What makes an antipsychotic atypical?

What makes an effective executive.

An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the typical sense of the word. Peter Drucker, the author of more than two dozen HBR articles, says some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs he has worked with over his 65-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious. ...

Social vs. Individual Learning - What Makes a Difference?

We examine the Cournot oligopoly model in the context of social and individual learning. In both models of learning, firms update their decisions about how much to produce via variants of the genetic algorithm updating procedure. Arifovic (1994) found that both models of social and individual learning converged to the Walrasian, competitive equilibrium. Vriend (2000) reports that the model of s...