By now, there is a large experimental literature showing some kind of status quo bias. If the subject is given a coffee mug (candy bar) and later given the possibility of trading it for a candy bar (coffee mug) of equal value, the subject is likely to stick with the original allocation (Knetsch, 1989). Here, we ask whether status quo bias can be made consistent with downward-sloping demand curv...

williams, watts, macleod and mathews' (1988) model of anxiety and depression leads to the prediction that anxious patients will show mood – congreuent implicit memory bias, while depressed patients will show mood-congruent explicit memory bias.although this prediction has been supported by some researchers (denny & hunt, 1992 mathews, moog, et al , 1989 watkins, et al, 1992), the reliabili...

one of the important factors in making financial decisions is perceptual biases. they influence decisions at the time of exchanging stocks. the present research means to identify these common biases among investors and show its relation with their personality. doing this research, the statistic society is considered unlimited thus a random group of 200 investors from tehran stock exchange has b...

one of the main problems of the drug abusers is drug related attention bias, which causes craving, and as a result drive the drug abusers to take narcotics. methadone is used as a maintenance treatment for drug abusers. the purpose of this study is evaluation of the effect of methadone maintenance therapy (mmt) on selective attention and drug related attention bias. this study investigated drug...

background: most of the amino acids are encoded by more than one codon, termed as synonymous codons. synonymous codon usage is not random as it is unique to species. in each amino acid family, some synonymous codons are preferred and this is referred to as synonymous codon usage bias (scub). trends associated with evolution of scub and factors influencing its diversification in plastomes of gen...

aim and background: cognitive investigations of emotional disorders proposed that cognitive biases have at least a role as maintenance factors in psychopathology. this study aimed to compare the styles of attribution in a group of students with borderline personality traits and a normal group. methods and materials: this was a cross-sectional survey. through stratified random sampling, 330 stud...