This is the first draft of the entry “Game Theory” to appear in the Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science (edited by Ian Jarvie & Jesús Zamora Bonilla), Part III, Chapter 16.

WhitePaper Foreword This guide is written to serve as inspiration and as an introduction for those who want to know more about eye tracking and how this tool can be used in package and shelf testing. This guide will not explain a methodology but I hope it will inspire you to develop your own methodologies as well as your own tests and experiments. I would also like to thank the people who have ...

Rubinstein (2007) has recently found that the frequency of (types of) decisions made in Internet experiments are related to the time taken for these decisions. Other authors have investigated this relationship by exerting some time pressure. In this paper, I report on an attempt to do the opposite, i.e., to enforce a longer reflection time. To ensure that subjects do not just wait but actually ...

In 2007 the Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeographical Association (SEBA) wrote and ratified the first draft of the International Code of Area Nomenclature (ICAN), which was posted subsequently on the SEBA website. The ICAN was published, along with an explanatory discussion, by Ebach et al. (Journal of Biogeography, 2008, 35, 1153–1157), an article that is the subject of criticism by Zaragüet...

We are what we eat, what we experience, and what we learn from others. Here I am reporting my observations nearly 50 years from the day I first taught an Economics class at Michigan State University. I have received my new ID card with RETIRED in bold letters indicating my new status. I report observations about the title topic blending my experience with what I have learned from others through...

The first case is usually referred to as omissive and the second as commissive. What is traditionally perceived as paradoxical is that although such statements may well be true, asserting them is clearly absurd. An account of Moore’s Paradox is an explanation of the absurdity. In the last twenty years, there has also been a focus on the incoherence of judging or believing such propositions. In ...

This is a first draft of lecture notes for a course given at the LMU Munich in July 2011. 1. Sobolev inequalities and uncertainty principles 1.1. Example: Stability of the hydrogen atom. We consider a single particle of mass 1/2 moving in three-dimensional space in the presence of a potential V . We recall that in classical mechanics the state of such a system (at a given time) is described by ...

There is now an extensive literature on “gift exchange” showing that when principals and agents can trade “gifts” (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal’s goal is to increase the performance of a reciprocal agent. Specifically, who should make the first gift...

Promoting settlement compactness and controlling fragmentation are often discussed as important goals towards sustainability. The article deals with the exploration of 111 urban municipalities in Germany. All cities are compared by characteristics of the urban form and typical statistical facts about cities such as population, employees or buildings. Spatial metrics (e.g. contagion index, core-...

To stimulate the Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) development effectively and efficiently, it is key to assess the progress and benefits of the SDI. Currently, several SDI assessment methods exist. However, these are still in an infant stage and none of these appear to meet the requirements of practitioners. As a result, SDI decision makers are still without any guidance on the performance of...