The objective of the paper was to determine the effect of performance expectancy on the learners’ intention to adopt and use Cloud computing. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model is used as the basis of this paper, and the data was collected using questionnaires. The questionnaires were analysed for correlation, significance and variance, to study Cloud computing...

To test the eating disorder expectancy theory contention that expectancies for reinforcement from thinness play a causal role in body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, the authors manipulated expectancies in 2 studies. Participants were exposed to either a psychoeducational intervention or an experimental manipulation of thinness and restricting expectancies. Study 1 participants we...

In this paper we show that it may be optimal for individuals to educate themselves more and decrease future labor supply (choose earlier retirement) when life expectancy increases. This result reconciles the …ndings of Hazan [Hazan, M., 2009. Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications. Econometrica 77, 1829–1863] with theory. Further, the paper contributes to a better unders...

In an experiment of multi-trial task to obtain a reward, reward expectancy neurons, which responded only in the non-reward trials that are necessary to advance toward the reward, have been observed in the anterior cingulate cortex of monkeys. In this paper, to explain the emergence of the reward expectancy neuron in terms of reinforcement learning theory, a model that consists of a recurrent ne...

We set up a three-period overlapping generation model in which young individuals allocate their time to schooling and work, healthy middle aged individuals allocate their time to leisure and work and their income to consumption and savings for retirement, and old age individuals live off their savings. The three period setup allows us to distinguish between longevity and active life expectancy ...

To verify the Global Burden of Disease Study and the provided healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) we propose a very simple model based on the mortality μx of a population provided in a classical life table and a mortality diagram. We use the abridged life tables provided by WHO. Our estimates are compared with the HALE estimates for the World territ...

This meta-analysis integrates the correlations of 77 studies on V. H. Vroom's (1964) original expectancy models and work-related criteria. Correlations referring to predictions with the models and the single components—valence, instrumentality, and expectancy—were included in relation to 5 types of criterion variables: performance, effort, intention, preference, and choice. Within-subjects corr...