religion is one of the protective factors that facilities positive outcomes by preventing individuals from engaging in addictive substance. a recent study has confirmed that religion inhibits drug addiction. the concept of psychospiritual therapy was to introduce drug addiction. therefore, of the various methods of psychotherapy, the usage of taqwa (piety) emerged as an applicable method of isl...

How does a boundedly rational optimizing agent make decisions? Can such an agent learn to behave rationally? We address these questions in a standard regulator environment. Our behavioral primitive is anchored to the shadow price of the state vector. The regulator forecasts the value of an additional unit of the state tomorrow, and uses this forecast to choose her control. The value of the cont...

Nowadays, the research on the effect of emotion on rational person behavior is a problem of concern in the field of desicion science, and it is a forward direction to carry out the relevant research using the method of decision neuroscience. In this paper, we use the method of meta-analysis to analyze 30 effect values which were extracted from 19 literatures. The result shows that emotion has a...

Introduction: Over the past few decades, we have seen a major decline in fertility in Iran and in the world. A wide range of social, economic and personality factors, including delayed marriage, fertility behavior, educational and economic goals have affected fertility intent. The rational action theory that determines the relationship among attitude, intent and behavior can be used to explain ...

Behavior in the ultimatum game is modeled by exploiting standard nonparametric utility theory with the monotonicity assumption relaxed to a condition termed quasi-monotonicity. Proposers’ beliefs about responder behavior are likewise modeled nonparametrically, imposing only the restriction that proposers know responders have well-behaved, quasi-monotone preferences. Proposers are not assumed to...