We are the first paper to analyse and confirm the existence and extent of rational informational herding and rational informational contrarianism in a financial market experiment, and to compare and contrast these with the equivalent irrational phenomena. In our study, subjects generally behaved according to benchmark rationality. Moreover, traders who should herd or be contrarian in theory are...

Internet subculture is a form of popular culture that distinct from mainstream internet and embodies distinctive aesthetics values. It primarily characterized by circling stratification subjects, ulgarization contents, symbolization forms, utilitarianization market. In the context subculture, spiritual life contemporary college students presents triple alienation pattern, namely, mental emotion...

Is it rational to be mindful? Can one be more or less rationally mindful? Can one be more or less mindfully rational? In this short article I explore the contribution that mindfulness can make to modeling and theorizing about rationality—including rational choice and rational belief, or ‘epistemic rationality’. The two streams of literature have in fact never met—a sign of the self-defeating is...

We report on an experiment that distinguishes between rational social learning and behavioral information source bias. Subjects are asked to correctly guess the current binary state of world. Differently from other studies, subjects must choose receiving a private, noisy signal about or observing past guesses in prior period. Our design varies persistence across time, which affects whether priv...

The paper considers the problem of modern specificity value-rational grounds dispositions actors physical-educational space regional universities. empirical basis work results from sociological research conducted in 2019-2020 by questionnaire survey subjects universities Belgorod, Kursk, and Lipetsk regions (the Central Black Earth Russia, which have close characteristics). It is argued that de...