This paper introduces the notion of ‘psychology-compatible’ to refer to elicitation mechanisms that do not interfere with the psychological processes behind the phenomenon being studied. Its importance is demonstrated with one of the most commonly used mechanisms in experimental economics, the multiple-price-list, where subjects answer yes/no to their willingness to pay each of a set of prices....

Phonology provides a system by which a limited number of types of phonetic variation can signal communicative intentions at multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Because phonologies vary from language to language, acquiring the phonology of a language demands learning to attribute phonetic variation appropriately. Here, we studied the case of pitch-contour variation. In English, pitch contour...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the influence of home smoking restriction (HSR) and the modified effect of parental smoking on smoking initiation among adolescents. DESIGN Prospective Cohort Study. SETTING Junior high school in Keelung City, Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS This study collected and evaluated primary data from the Adolescent Smoking and Other Health-Related Behavi...

Should healthy, middle-aged women receive precautionary mammograms? Should trauma surgeons use the popular TRISS score to predict the likelihood of patient survival? These are examples of questions confronting us when we decide whether to use a yes/no prediction. In order to trust a prediction we must show that it is more valuable than would be our best guess of the future in the absence of the...

The effect of perspective transformation on transfer of face training was investigated in a yes/no recognition task using face stimuli with 42 degrees, 10 degrees, or no perspective convergence. A strong dependence of recognition performance on the magnitude of perspective transformation was found, with large perspective changes such as from 42 degrees at learning to orthogonal at test producin...

In a widely cited series of papers, Hassett and Metcalf argue that the slow diffusion of energy saving technology may be due to a high option value to waiting. While the authors clarify that this is relevant for yes/no decisions (such as whether to add insulation to a home), this argument has been widely cited even in investment decisions that involve a choice over multiple appliances or vehicl...

We aim at improving the collaborative character of the responses in the GoDiS dialogue system participating in information-seeking dialogues. In this paper we describe how the system currently deals with successful and unsuccessful database search and show the need for generating more collaborative responses. We consider conditional yes/no responses as one kind of collaborative responses and di...

Volunteers studied pictures of objects and were then tested for yes/no recognition at 10 min and 1 week after learning (experiment 1), or at 10 min and 4 months after learning (experiment 2). Because the gradual consolidation of long-term memory is thought to occur across this time scale (weeks and months), the reaction time distributions of successfully retrieved items were analyzed in an atte...

This paper summarizes several perception experiments showing that the morphology of the prosodic focus conveys more information than the only deictic information: (1) the binary valence yes/no focus – which is perceptively quite categorical (a magnet effect is clear on the basis of an identification and a discrimination experiment [2]), (2) the intensity information, used by the speaker to give...

The detectability of a pure-tone signal may be reduced by adding a small number of randomly drawn masker tones remote from the signal frequency, an effect attributed to informational masking. A pretrial cue consisting of either the upcoming signal or masker releases informational masking, but a pretrial cue of the signal-plus-masker stimulus does not. In these experiments the relative potency o...