Background & aim: Physiological changes during pregnancy cause high levels of stress in the mother. Thus, the need for maternal psychological adjustment using coping strategies is important. Coping strategies can be influenced by individual beliefs and attitudes. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the relationship between irrational beliefs and prenatal coping strategies. Methods:...

Starting from well-known studies by Kahmenan and Tversky, researchers have found many examples when our decision making seems to be irrational. In this chapter, we show that this seemingly irrational decision making can be explained if we take into account that human abilities to process information are limited; as a result, instead of the exact values of different quantities, we operate with g...

Abstract We classify braided generalized near-group fusion categories whose global dimension is not an integer; there are exactly two up to Grothendieck equivalence and taking products with pointed categories.

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties irrational-slope Thompson’s group F? introduced by Cleary in [11]. We construct presentations, both finite and infinite, we describe its combinatorial structure using binary trees. show that commutator simple. Finally, inspired case F, define a unique normal form for elements metric based on form. As corollary, see several embeddings F are un...

This article formalizes investor rationality and irrationality, exuberance and apprehension, to consider the implications of belief formation for the fragility of an economy’s financial structure. The model presented generates a financial structure with portfolio linkages that make it susceptible to contagious financial crises, despite the absence of coordination failures. Investors forecast th...

The Fed kept interest rates low and essentially unchanged during the late 1990s despite a booming economy and record-low unemployment. These interest rates were accommodative by historical standards. Nonetheless, inflation remained low. How did the Fed succeed in sustaining rapid economic growth without fueling inflation and inflationary expectations? In retrospect, it is evident that the produ...

entral banks differ in their specific inflation objectives and conduct of policy. However, they typically confront the common problem of identifying which price changes are permanent and which are transitory. Because of the lagged effects of monetary policy, mistaking the nature of price changes can be extremely costly. For example, the failure to detect the onset of inflationary pressures may ...