Abstract Surveys regularly ask home-owners to guess what their property might be worth in the current housing market. We develop suitable statistical techniques construct hedonic and repeat-sales style house price indices from these owner-estimated values (OEVs). The resulting series are then linked a large set of quality-adjusted residential estimated transaction data allowing us perform varie...

Humans draw on their stereotypic beliefs to make assumptions about others. Even though prior research has shown that individuals respond socially to media, there is little evidence with regards to learners stereotyping and categorizing pedagogical agents. This study investigated whether learners stereotype a pedagogical agent as being knowledgeable or not knowledgeable and how this acuity influ...

The aim of this study was to determine which of two occlusal indices were the most appropriate for use in the assessment of orthognathic outcome. The indices used were the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) Index and the Index of Treatment Complexity, Outcome, and Need (ICON). These indices were validated against the subjective assessments of treatment outcome and treatment improvement obtained from ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the association between self reported and externally assessed work characteristics and psychiatric disorder. DESIGN Analysis of questionnaire data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study, a cohort study of an employed population. SETTING Twenty civil service departments in London. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 6900 male and 3414 female civil servants...

Adaptation to smells is a well-known phenomenon and appears to be one of the major characteristics of olfaction. However, no standardized protocols for the psychophysical measurement of olfactory adaptation and recovery are available to date. Twenty normosmic participants were included. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and phenylethyl alcohol were used in different concentrations based on air dilution ol...

Humans often alter their behavior depending on the opponent’s group membership, with positive (e.g., support of same-group members) or negative (e.g., stereotyping, oppression, genocide) consequences. An influential model developed by Hammond and Axelrod highlighted the emergence of macro-level “ethnocentric cooperation” from the aggregation of micro-level interactions based on arbitrary tags s...

Surround suppression is a well-known example of contextual interaction in visual cortical neurophysiology, whereby the neural response to a stimulus presented within a neuron's classical receptive field is suppressed by surrounding stimuli. Human psychophysical reports present an obvious analog to the effects seen at the single-neuron level: stimuli are perceived as lower-contrast when embedded...