This study intends to investigate the effect of incredulity on yes-no question intonation in Taiwan Mandarin. Mandarin yes-no question is formed by adding the sentence-final particle -ma, and it usually sounds incredulous when -ma is absent. To examine how incredulity interacts with -ma, three question conditions were designed, including neutral question with -ma, incredulous question with -ma,...

The study explored the quality of multiple-choice question types test items in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) using item analysis. was an exploratory type where secondary data collected analysed. made up ten (10) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) on ICT instrument. Thirty learners’ instruments were sampled. analysis procedure included reliability coefficient, coefficient variation...

Physiological and emotional states can affect our decision-making processes, even when these states are seemingly insignificant to the decision at hand. We examined whether posture and postural threat affect decisions in a non-related economic domain. Healthy young adults made a series of choices between economic lotteries in various conditions, including changes in body posture (sitting vs. st...

Travelers who access the Internet through currently available web information systems often experience difficulty in selecting interesting products. This is especially true for on-the-move travelers who browse information repositories using mobile devices with poor user interfaces. Travelers suffer from an overload of information and options to consider, and they lack system support in filterin...

Behavioural social choice has been proposed as a social choice parallel to seminal developments in other decision sciences, such as behavioural decision theory, behavioural economics, behavioural finance and behavioural game theory. Behavioural paradigms compare how rational actors should make certain types of decisions with how real decision makers behave empirically. We highlight that importa...