Today, the proper playing of managerial roles is of special importance in effective and successful management of sports clubs. The present paper aimed to study the managerial roles of sports clubs CEOs in Isfahan Province in the current and desirable conditions. Statistical population included all managers and directors of Sepahan, Zobahan, Foolad Mahan, and Gitipasand sports clubs (N=83), wh...

OBJECTIVE Inaccuracies in self-reported weight are believed to represent a motivated distortion, but cognitive or perceptual biases have not been excluded. We examined the ability of participants to estimate the weight of a target person as a means of distinguishing between motivated distortions and perceptual biases. METHOD Participants (restrained eaters and unrestrained eaters; women and m...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on controlling CEOs’ emotions and some behavioral biases. Departing from a sample of 40 public traded Tunisian firms, we test the impact of the board of directors on managing CEO’s irrationalities. Our results highlight strong evidence on the role of the board characteristics, especially the board independence, a ...

Humans share with non-human animals perceptual biases that might form the basis of complex cognitive abilities. One example comes from the principles described by the iambic-trochaic law (ITL). According to the ITL, sequences of sounds varying in duration are grouped as iambs, whereas sequences varying in intensity are grouped as trochees. These grouping biases have gained much attention becaus...

Perceptual grouping has traditionally been thought to be governed by innate, universal principles. However, recent work has found differences in Japanese and English speakers' non-linguistic perceptual grouping, implicating language in non-linguistic perceptual processes (Iversen, Patel, & Ohgushi, 2008). Two experiments test Japanese- and English-learning infants of 5-6 and 7-8 months of age t...

The goal of the study was to determine whether dextral individuals with schizophrenia display atypical perceptual biases in response to faces in general, or whether they display atypical perceptual biases in response to emotional facial cues. To this end, we assessed perceptual processing in schizophrenia patients with four types of free-vision chimeric stimuli. Perceptual biases were evaluated...

the aim of this study is to find the effect of trader’s biorhythmic cycles on their perceptual decisions in tehran stock exchange. according to author’s point of view, decision making is one of the major factors of management skills, and in some cases, it is equivalent of management (simon’s point of view). also considering this fact that the knowledge of psychological factors and it’s effects ...

Across two studies, we investigate how perceptions of distances to out-group threats may be critically regulated by the presence or absence of one’s in-group and by beliefs regarding the potential for danger from the out-group. Threat regulation includes biases in the distance one perceives a threat, such that threats are perceived as relatively more distant by more formidable compared to less ...