this paper compares the value relevance of book value and dividends versus book value and reported earnings. the main purpose of this study explains which of dividends, book value and earnings are more value relevance. thus, we have examined 98 firms of tehran stock exchange over a period 1377-1382. our methodology of examining the information content of various income statement and balance she...

We present a novel relevance feedback (RF) method that uses not only the surface information in texts, but also the latent information contained therein. In the proposed method, we infer the latent topic distribution in user feedback and in each document in the search results using latent Dirichlet allocation, and then we modify the search results so that documents with a similar topic distribu...

When faced with two competing hypotheses, people sometime prefer to look at multiple sources of information in support of one hypothesis rather than to establish the diagnostic value of a single piece of information for the two hypotheses. This is termed pseudodiagnostic reasoning, and is understood to reflect a pervasive confirmation bias. Past research suggests that diagnostic reasoning may b...