There is considerable evidence that human economic decision-making deviates from the predictions of expected utility theory (EUT) and that human performance conforms to EUT in many perceptual and motor decision tasks. It is possible that these results reflect a real difference in decision-making in the 2 domains but it is also possible that the observed discrepancy simply reflects typical diffe...

Understanding decision-making processes within dynamic task environments via embodied computational cognitive models proves to be a challenge for the modeling community (see Gonzalez, Lerch, & Lebiere, 2003 for an example). Decisions made by an agent may be the result of explicit, strategic moves, or result from implicit, costbenefit tradeoffs occurring at the level of 1/3 of a second. Understa...

various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were discussed based on their limitations and production capacities, and the criteria such as the quality and size of coke production, amount of coke crumb, amount of investment, amount of operational costs, labor force and mechanization. in this work, the rankings of various traditional and industrial coke making techniques were carried...

design and implement of a strategy to improve employee's attitude, emotions and performance is an important task of managers. because of the lack of enough latitude and diversity in certain jobs, it causes mental fatigue, stress, dissatisfaction, low level of organizational commitment, emotional harms; lose self-confidence and ultimately reduction in job performance. this study is designed to i...

BACKGROUND Alexithymia is characterised by difficulties identifying and describing emotions. Few studies have investigated how alexithymia influences decision-making under different conditions (ambiguity and risk). This study aimed to examine whether alexithymia contributes to impairment in decision-making. METHOD This study included 42 participants with high scores in the Chinese version of ...

Humans have a tendency to engage in economically irrational behaviors such as gambling, which typically leads to long-term financial losses. While there has been much research on human gambling behavior, relatively little work has been done to explore the evolutionary origins of this behavior. To examine the adaptive pressures that may have led to this seemingly irrational behavior in humans, n...

Researchers often treat workload as a task-dependent variable. To evaluate the effect of workload on individuals' performance, researchers commonly use several methods, such as varying the complexity or number of tasks that test participants are asked to handle or placing individuals under time constraints. Only rarely have researchers investigated workload as a variable dependent on individual...

The Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) suggests Recognition, the ability to discriminate among familiar classes of objects, is the first determinant of decision-making in complex tasks (Gonzalez, Lerch, & Lebiere, Conditionally accepted). According to IBLT, the main object of knowledge is an instance (described by the situation-decision-utility information). This paper investigates the acqui...

In this paper we compare the behaviour of three competing accounts of decision making under uncertainty (a Bayesian account, an associationist account, and a hypothesis testing account) with subject performance in a medical diagnosis task. The task requires that subjects first learn a set of symptom/disease associations. Later, subjects are required to form diagnoses based on limited symptom in...