Two experiments utilized a new experimental paradigm – the IPD-MD game – to study how relative deprivation at the group level affects intergroup competition. The IPD-MD game enables group members to make a costly contribution to either a within-group pool that benefits fellow in-group members, or a between-group pool, which, in addition harms out-group members. We found that when group members ...

nowadays, one of the topics of interest to researchers is the authority of teachers, and fades it in universities. look at the reality in the society and comparing with historical context motivates researchers to question why some of the professors at the university have less authority. for this purpose, this research is trying to focus on economic and demographic factors, to answer questions. ...

We study the growth process among a large group of economies where consumption relative to reference determines discount factor household agents. characterize all possible balanced paths and their stability properties. The model can explain why two having similar production technologies, preferences, total productivity rates differ in labor supply behavior have diverging depending on initial co...

Curiosity as a feeling of deprivation (CFD) reflects feelings of uncertainty and tension that motivate information-seeking and problem-solving behavior. Twenty-seven CFD items were administered to 321 participants (248 women, 73 men) along with other measures of curiosity and other personality traits such as anxiety, anger, and depression. Factor analyses of the CFD items identified 3 factors f...

in this article despite of emphasis on the role of political cultural and religious factors to making political behavior and decision of society we try to explaining the relation between social and economical dissatisfaction and voting to political factions in iran.(in this article our concern is about voting to second khordad faction under the leadership of khatamy). in this theory we want to ...