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Behavioral economics uses evidence from psychology and other social sciences to create a precise and fruitful alternative to traditional economic theories, which are based on optimization. Behavioral economics may interest some biologists, as it shifts the basis for theories of economic choice away from logical calculation and maximization and toward ...
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There are many cultural practices related to generic terms such as “behavioral psychology” or simply “behviorism”. This paper develops Tourinho’s (1999) argument towards a classification where behavior analysis is the large area of behaviorist practice ...
Marcus Bentes de Carvalho Neto
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Background subtraction has been a driving engine for many computer vision and video analytics tasks. Although its many variants exist, they all share the underlying assumption that photometric scene properties are either static or exhibit temporal stationarity. While this works in some applications, the model fails when one is interested in discovering
Jodoin, Pierre-Marc +2 more
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Behavior therapy: roots, evolution, and reflection on the relevance of behaviorism in the clinical context [PDF]
Behavior Therapy—as well as its three generations—has been shown to be the psychotherapeutic technology with the most empirical evidence in clinical and health psychology.
Lorenzo Rodríguez-Riesco +4 more
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Connectivism: Its place in theory-informed research and innovation in technology-enabled learning [PDF]
The sociotechnical context for learning and education is dynamic and makes great demands on those trying to seize the opportunities presented by emerging technologies.
Bell, F
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An understanding of behavior is important in any consideration of poultry welfare. Behavior is a good indicator of states of suffering such as fear, frustration, and pain. It might also be possible to use social interactions as indicators of welfare. The possibility of using "luxury" behavior, such as play and exploratory behavior, as an indicator of ...
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Imagined Hierarchies as Conditionals of Gender in Aesthetics [PDF]
The attributes of gender in the media are disputable. This can be explained by a conflict generated by culturally acquired alternative imagined hierarchies which are not compatible or may be even contradictory.
Adrian Mróz
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Psychological Behaviorism and Behaviorizing Psychology [PDF]
Paradigmatic or psychological behaviorism (PB), in a four-decade history of development, has been shaped by its goal, the establishment of a behaviorism that can also serve as the approach in psychology (Watson's original goal). In the process, PB has become a new generation of behaviorism with abundant heuristic avenues for development in theory ...
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Sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, “Behavioral Epigenetics” was held on October 29–30, 2010 at the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Lester, BM +13 more
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The Search for Cognitive Terminology: An Analysis of Comparative Psychology Journal Titles
This research examines the employment of cognitive or mentalist words in the titles of articles from three comparative psychology journals (Journal of Comparative Psychology, International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental ...
Cynthia Whissell +2 more
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