We present the concept of nocuous ambiguity, which occurs when text is interpreted differently by different readers. In contrast, text exhibits innocuous ambiguity if different readers interpret it in the same way, even though structural or semantic analyses suggest that multiple interpretations may be possible. We collect multiple human judgements of a set of English phrases obtained from requ...

We analyze a market populated by expected utility maximizers and smooth ambiguity-averse consumers. We study conditions under which ambiguity-averse consumers survive and affect prices in the limit. If ambiguity vanishes with time or if the economy exhibits no aggregate risk, ambiguity-averse consumers survive, but have no long-run impact on prices. In both scenarios, ambiguity-averse consumers...

The first few months of nursing have the potential to be the most challenging and stressful for new nursing graduates. The purpose of the present study was to examine sources of, and changes in, role stress 2-3 months after employment, and 11-12 months later in new graduate nurses. This study also investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and role stress. A factor analysis demonstr...

OBJECTIVES Recent epidemiological research in Europe has reported that two groups of job demands, i.e., challenges and hindrances, are differently associated with work engagement. The purpose of the present study was to replicate the cross-sectional association of workload and time pressure (as a challenge) and role ambiguity (as a hindrance) with work engagement among Japanese employees. MET...

Although research on workplace aggression has long recognized job stressors as antecedents, little is known about the process through which employee responses to stressful workplace demands escalate from relatively mild interactions into more intense behaviors. This study investigates the influence that employees' perceptions of role stress (ambiguity, conflict, overload) have on their aggressi...

Ambiguity, and its resolution, are key elements of communication; and, in particular, of music (See, e.g., the examples discussed by L. Bernstein in bis f amous Harvard lectures [1). Besides rhythmical ambiguity, it is particularly harmonic ambiguity of both simultaneaus notes, i.e., chords, and of sequential notes, i.e., rnelodies, that play a major role. Auditory pitch comes into play through...

background job satisfaction, which is affected by various factors, indicates positive or negative attitude of employees towards their own occupation and affects the quality of service. objectives the present study aimed at investigating job satisfaction and some of its related factors in midwives of tehran primary health centers in 2014. methods the present cross sectional study was conducted o...

the purpose of this descriptive – correlation research was to investigate factors influencing job burnout among jihad-e keshavarzi organization specialists in kurdistan province. the statistical population of the study consisted of all jihad-e keshavarzi organization specialists (n=449). using the krejcie and morgan’s (1970) table and proportional stratified random sampling technique, 220 speci...

The literature discusses risk aversion as one of the behavioral determinants of technology adoption. However, little attention has been paid to measuring ambiguity aversion of poor people in developing countries or in finding the role of ambiguity aversion in technology adoption. Risk experiments in the previous studies have been designed in such a way that individuals face the risky and/or amb...

Despite the expected benefits, the slow adoption of innovations in less developed countries has long been a puzzle. Aside from market constraints, risk-aversion dominates the discussion on the behavioural determinants of technology adoption. This paper investigates the role of ambiguity-aversion as another possible explanation, given farmers may have less information about the outcomes of new t...