Introduction The Token Economy Advantages of Token Economies Problems of Token Economies Management/Control Goals Disruptive Behavior Ward Care Behavior Self-care Behavior Therapeutic/Educative Goals Verbal Behaviors Social Behaviors Implementation of the Token Economy Staff Training Backup Reinforcers Social Reinforcement Economic Balance and Savings Intermittant Reinforcement Su~ary and Concl...

We conduct a large-scale economics experiment paired with a survey to examine the association between individual risk preference and health-related behaviors among adults aged 18-87 years. Risk preference is measured by the lottery choice experiment designed by Holt and Laury [Holt, C.A., Laury, S.K., 2002. Risk aversion and incentive effects. The American Economic Review 92(5), 1644-1655]. Con...

Information privacy paradox is of great interest to IS researchers and firms gathering personal information. This paradox has been found by IS researchers from social, behavioral, and economic aspects independently. However, there is a lack of study that examines the degrees of influence that different factors contribute to the privacy paradox problem. We combine both economic and social perspe...

People often make decisions in health care that are not in their best interest, ranging from failing to enroll in health insurance to which they are entitled, to engaging in extremely harmful behaviors. Traditional economic theory provides a limited tool kit for improving behavior because it assumes that people make decisions in a rational way, have the mental capacity to deal with huge amounts...

Building on the work of S. M. Sales, who related contemporaneous economic threat to authoritarian behaviors, two studies tested the hypothesis that threat is associated with relatively more attraction to authoritarian churches and less attraction to nonauthoritarian churches. The hypothesis was supported in Study 1, when the annual percentage of changes in memberships (1928-1986) for two author...

This chapter considers the growing body of theoretical and empirical research on the economics and behavioral economics of privacy, and how those streams of research can be applied to the investigation of the economic implications of business analytics and consumer data mining. The chapter begins by highlighting why privacy-sensitive scenarios and outcomes can be often interpreted through econo...

Lévy processes can capture the behaviors of return innovations on a full range of financial securities. Applying stochastic time changes to the Lévy processes randomizes the clock on which the processes run, thus generating stochastic volatilities and stochastic higher return moments. Therefore, with appropriate choices of Lévy processes and stochastic time changes, we can capture the return dy...