Voters sometimes vote for seemingly less-qualified candidates. To explain this fact, we develop a political agency model with sequential elections in which voter elects politician among candidates different competence (valence) levels, considering that politicians’ representation of voters’ preferences depends on their levels. We show negative relationship exists between and when future challen...

The widely acclaimed animated movie, Kung Fu Panda, provides an interesting resource for teaching concepts of motivation including Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, Self-efficacy, Self-fulfilling Prophecy Vroom’s Expectancy Theory. This article clip-by-clip examples that exhibit these along with discussion prompts probable answers facilitate engagement understanding among students. Time stamp...

From a diagnostic perspective, variants in SLC26A2 gene cause the spectrum of skeletal dysplasias including in-utero lethal achondrogenesis type 1B (OMIM: 600972), atelosteogenesis 2 256050), diastrophic dysplasia 222600) and multiple epiphyseal 226900). Historically, individuals diagnosed with have had poor health outcomes die perinatal period, whereas those longer, potentially even typical li...

Abstract Ethnic and racial disparities in educational outcomes, such as test scores, are a core issue of research. While the role student family factors formation is well established, existing studies fail to draw similarly clear picture how teachers contribute ethnic achievement gaps. In contrast previous studies, which focussed on consequences rather blatant forms discrimination, teachers’ gr...

Male advantage on spatial tasks may be explained in part by gender stereotypes (Nash 1975). The current study investigated the effect of awareness of sex differences in mental rotation on mental rotation (MR) performance. We hypothesized that students with negative stereotypes would score significantly lower than students who were unaware or held positive stereotypes. Participants – 285 undergr...

This paper studies a mechanism to incentivize agents who predict their own future actions and truthfully declare their predictions. In a crowdsouring setting (e.g., participatory sensing), obtaining an accurate prediction of the actions of workers/agents is valuable for a requester who is collecting real-world information from the crowd. If an agent predicts an external event that she cannot co...

Many studies have shown that academic achievement is highly correlated with social class. Few, however, have attempted to explain exactly how the school helps to reinforce the class structure of the society. In this article Dr. Rist reports the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten, firstand second-grade years. He shows how the kindergarten ...