My analysis sheds light on how “preference affirmation” – the act of visibly indicating that you share the same likes or dislikes as someone else – is correlated with friendship, product characteristics and social norms. Preference affirmation is an important consideration as marketers seek to promote their products and leverage the visibility of consumer preferences. This research-in-progress ...

Mechanisms supporting human ultra-cooperativeness are very much subject to debate. One psychological feature likely to be relevant is the formation of expectations, particularly about receiving cooperative or generous behavior from others. Without such expectations, social life will be seriously impeded and, in turn, expectations leading to satisfactory interactions can become norms and institu...

This paper surveys the treatment of expectations in estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic models. A recent notable development in the empirical macroeconomics literature has been the rapid growth of papers that build structural models, which include a number of frictions and shocks, and which are confronted with the data using sophisticated full-information econo...

The educational system is designed for some students’ kind of minds (e.g., those with strengths in attention, memory, language, social skills), for others, it is a daily struggle. Unfortunately, the academic setting rarely accounts for this variability. Regardless, at some point in time (for whatever reason), almost all students “hit a wall” (or face a challenge) which can mak...

in order to produce agricultural products, modern techniques are being used in agriculture sector. to respond to the changes effectively, students should prepare themselves applying practical trainings. the aim of this descriptive study was to analyze students’ expectations and demands regarding agricultural operations course in the faculty of agriculture, zanjan university. 114 students were s...

OBJECTIVES To explore cross-sectional patterns of use of fatigue management strategies in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who had attended a group-based fatigue management programme, Fatigue: Applying Cognitive behavioural and Energy effectiveness Techniques to lifeStyle ('FACETS'). In a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) the FACETS programme was shown to reduce fatigue severity ...

aim: health locus of control includes the degree of a person's belief in the fact that his/her health is controlled by internal or external factors. the aim of this study was to determine the status of health locus of control and its related factors among iranian pilgrims.methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 600 pilgrims of the holy shrines in tehran in 2015. people aged ov...