The projections for the rising cost of healthcare have spurred robust dialogue, and among the many targets for cost control are specialty drugs. An important question thus becomes: Are behavioral economic factors driving physician prescribing? This article presents a review of leading behavioral economic theories and their application to the results of an Oncology Medical Home pilot that revers...

In experimental psychopathology, construct validity is usually enhanced by addressing theories from other fields in its nomological network. In the field of anxiety research, this construct is related to antipredator behavior, conserved across phylogeny in its functions and neural basis, but not necessarily on its topography. Even though the relations between behavioral models of anxiety and st...

In this paper I will examine individual access to information on the Internet through a cognitive ^ behavioral perspective. I argue that the objective structure of information resources in cyberspace is not helpful for understanding the experience of individual accessibility in cyberspace. Instead, cyberspatial cognition is crucial in constituting the effective cyber-environment and shaping hum...

We test the predictions of the three main behavioral finance theories of market underand overreaction using out-of-sample data conditional on the nature of the news using the goingconcern audit opinion (bad news event) and its withdrawal (good news event). We find strong support for the Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam (1998) model for our bad news as well as the good news case suggesting t...

This report gives a brief introduction to Behavioral Finance. First, we present some thought-provoking examples based on empirical human behavior in risky and uncertain decision-making. Then, we present some history on rationality that is the support of formal theories on finance and economics. Finally, we introduce two applications of behavioral modelling in finance.

BACKGROUND: The present paper intends to contribute to the debate on the usefulness and barriers in applying theories in diet and physical activity behavior-change interventions. DISCUSSION: Since behavior theory is a reflection of the compiled evidence of behavior research, theory is the only foothold we have for the development of behavioral nutrition and physical activity interventions. Appl...

Theories of rational choice are arguably the most prominent approaches to human behaviour in social and behavioral sciences. At same time, they have faced persistent criticism. In this paper, I revisit some core criticisms that for a long time been levelled against them discuss what extent those still effective, not only light recent advancements literature but also fact there different variant...