On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use “behavioral science insights to better serve the American people.” The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was issued, and this serendipity further underscores the timeliness of this special section. These articles propose many examples of t...

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In the Department of Community Health, University of the Witwatersrand, self-directed learning ma­ terials have been used for fourthyear medical students since Jan­ uary 1983. Student feedback has been very positive and we have seen significant increases in marks when compared with conventional didac­ tic handouts. It is believed that this teaching method has great potential for many other grou...

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Reference departments track patron interactions to illustrate the type and number of services provided as well as to tailor librarians' time and expertise to the interest and needs of their patrons. Until 2010 the Reference, Education, and Community Engagement Department at the Calder Memorial Library tracked statistics using a complicated system of paper tic sheets and two Excel™ spreadsheets....

This chapter provides an introduction into the genetic control and analysis of behavioral variation using powerful online resources. We introduce you to the new field of systems genetics using "case studies" drawn from the world of behavioral genetics that exploit populations of genetically diverse lines of mice. These lines differ very widely in patterns of gene and protein expression in the b...

The classical Ellsberg experiment presents individuals with a choice problem in which the probability of winning a prize is unknown (ambiguous). In this paper we study how individuals make choices between gambles in which the ambiguity is in di↵erent dimensions: the winning probability, the amount of the prize and the payment date, and many combinations. While the decision-theoretic models acco...

Previous research has illustrated the importance of acquiring knowledge from authentic contexts; however, without full engagement, students’ learning performance might not be as good as expected. In this study, a Team Competition-based Ubiquitous Gaming approach was proposed for improving students’ learning effectiveness in authentic learning activities. An experiment on a natural science cours...

Researchers in the organizational sciences and in the social and behavioral sciences in general encounter a host of problems as they seek to describe, predict, and understand behavior. The procedures we use to measure and analyze behavior are constantly improving as a result of the efforts of psychometricians and applied statisticians, among others. Many of the techniques discussed in this book...