People are faced with numerous decisions every day. Whether we must choose our outfit for the day, which cell phone brand to buy, what college to attend, to buy a car or house insurance, or even when or to whom to get married, decisions are a permanent presence in our daily activities. Behavioral economics is a multi-disciplinary field of study investigating how people make judgments and decisi...

This corpus study addresses the question of the nature and the structure of antonymy and synonymy in language use, following automatic methods to identify their behavioral patterns in texts. We examine the conceptual closeness/distance of synonyms and antonyms through the lens of their DOMAIN instantiations.

We design a new variation on the picalculus, πcost, in which the use of channels or resources must be paid for. Processes operate relative to a cost environment, and communications can only happen if principals have provided sufficient funds for the channels associated with the communications. We define a bisimulation-based behavioural preorder in which two processes are related if, intuitively...

This paper will consider the relationship between complexity economics and behavioral economics. A crucial key to this is to understand that Herbert Simon was both the founder of explicitly modern behavioral economics as well as one of the early developers of complexity theory. Bounded rationality was essentially derived from Simon's view of the impossibility of full rationality on the part of ...

Three mostly positive developments in academic psychology-the cognitive revolution, the virtual requirement for multiple study reports in our top journals, and the prioritization of mediational evidence in our data-have had the unintended effect of making field research on naturally occurring behavior less suited to publication in the leading outlets of the discipline. Two regrettable consequen...

A ll researchers who attempt to formulate conclusions from a particular path of inquiry use aspects of the scientific method, which can vary from field to field and method to method. The sound application of the scientific method allows researchers to reveal valid empirical findings. Within the social sciences, the general steps include the following: (a) state the problem, (b) formulate the hy...

Davis (2001) developed a cognitive-behavioral model of pathological Internet use (PIU) in which the availability, and awareness of the Internet, psychopathologies such as depression, social anxiety or substance abuse, and situational cues providing reinforcement of Internet usage behaviors, interact to produce maladaptive cognitions(Charlton & Danforth, 2007). This model posits that user's cogn...

The present article summarizes and comments on the clinical applications and promotion of aerobic (endurance) exercise within behavioral medicine. Highlighted applications include cardiovascular risk modification, obesity, diabetes, and smoking. Particular emphasis is placed on the problem of poor adherence to exercise programs in clinical and apparently healthy populations alike, on the identi...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.08.004 0003-3472/© 2014 The Association for the Study of A In this review, we explore the extent to which the recent evidence for conformity in nonhuman animals may alternatively be explained by the animals' preference for social information regardless of the number of individuals demonstrating the respective behaviour. Conformity as a research topic ori...