Proponents of epistocracy worry that high levels voter ignorance can harm democracies. To combat such ignorance, they recommend allocating comparatively more political power to politically knowledgeable citizens. In response, some recent critics contend epistocratic institutions risk causing even harm, since much evidence from psychology indicates citizens are typically biased, less open-minded...

The Game of Life, invented by John Horton Conway over 30 years ago, is probably the best known cellular automaton. An infinite rectangular grid divides the plane into squares called cells. Each cell can be dead or alive, but at any given moment only finitely many cells are alive. Each cell has eight neighbors. The evolution in (discrete) time follows simple rules: if at the moment n a cell is a...

The purpose of this symposium is to consider the implications of important recent work at the intersection of behavioral economics and information privacy. There is much to celebrate in this work, which has improved our understanding of the ways that markets in personal information actually function. Yet behavioral economic analysis has done little to defuse the most intractable problem that em...

Present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. To assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from Mediwave IVF and fertility research hospital in Mysore city and were administered Cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and The shortened ge...