Charness and Dufwenberg (American Economic Review, June 2011, 1211-1237) have recently demonstrated that cheap-talk communication raises efficiency in bilateral contracting situations with adverse selection. We replicate their finding and check its robustness by introducing competition between agents. We find that communication and competition act as “substitutes:” communication raises efficien...

A popular conception in the mind/brain sciences today is the metaphor of the brain as a computer. According to the computational theory of mind, all relevant cognition consists of executing some welldefined rules over representations which model (and have a direct correspondence to) the external world (Chalmers, 1996). I would like to challenge this notion and advocate a pluralistic/biological ...

The careful application of theory often is used in the behavioral health field to enhance our understanding of how the world currently works. But theory also can help us visualize what the world can become, particularly through its potential impacts on population-wide health. Applying a multi-level ecological perspective can help in expanding the field's focus upward toward the population at la...

The determinants of risk tolerance play an essential role in asset pricing. In this paper, I develop and test empirically a behavioral model of investor risk strategies. Difficulty in quantifying many of the elements of behavioral theories has so far necessitated experimental, rather than empirical, evaluation of most such models. Therefore, the methodology employed in this paper – testing a be...

The contention that basic behavioral intentions are forecasted by emotional expressions has received surprisingly little empirical support. We introduce a behavioral task that gauges the speed with which movement of angry and fearful faces (toward or away from an expressor’s gaze) are accurately detected. In two studies we found that perceivers were faster to correctly detect approaching anger ...

in past, the relationship between traditional learning theories and neurophysiological theories wasn’t a close relationship. recently, new findings in neurological sciences showed relatively simple neuron mechanisms for somewhat complicated learning events, for example observational learning, one of which is mirror neurons. these neurons show that how the brain registers the activity observed a...

Yakın zamanda psikolojik danışma alanında post-modernist olarak nitelendirilen çeşitli kuram ve yaklaşımları ortaya çıkmaya başlamıştır. Post-modern bu yaklaşımlardan birisi ise Öyküsel Terapi yaklaşımıdır. 1990 yılında White Epston isimli araştırmacıların sosyal yapılandırmacı postmodenizim kuramlarından etkilenilerek oluşturdukları, “Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends” kitaplarını yayımlamal...

Species invasions contribute to global environmental change and cause declines in populations of threatened endangered species. Significant government funds are expended on invasive species management (ISM) actions each year. Public support compliance critical the success these actions. We conducted a study assess determinants general public’s for ISM identify potential barriers ISM. administer...

The study was conducted to explore and understand factors that determine consumers' intention recycle e-waste from the lens of Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) Behavioral Reasoning (BRT). A cross-sectional survey designed data collected 339 respondents who used an extensive number electronic devices. findings suggest positive attitudes towards recycling; social norms perceived behavioral control a...