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Conditional beliefs in action.

, 2016
Humans rarely have sound or even complete knowledge about their environment.Instead, we usually picture different contingencies what the world could belike. For example, we might believe that a specific box is presumably empty, andthat otherwise it most plausibly contains a gift. On the grounds of(conditional) beliefs like this we act.
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
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Nucleus accumbens dopamine release reflects Bayesian inference during instrumental learning.

PLoS Computational Biology
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens has been hypothesized to signal the difference between observed and predicted reward, known as reward prediction error, suggesting a biological implementation for reinforcement learning.
Albert J Qü, Lung-Hao Tai, Christopher D Hall, Emilie M Tu, Maria K Eckstein, Karyna Mishchanchuk, Wan Chen Lin, Juliana B Chase, Andrew F MacAskill, Anne G E Collins, Samuel J Gershman, Linda Wilbrecht   +11 more
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Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner, Savannah Jones, Tania Islam, K. Aleks Schaefer   +3 more
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Relationship Between the Online Health Information Search and Vaccination Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Public Health
ObjectivesDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, online health information search has been shown to influence the public’s health beliefs, risk attitudes, and vaccination behavior.
Yunpeng Xu, Yunpeng Xu, Chen Pan, Peiyu Kong, Lina Shangguan   +4 more
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The Impacts of Health and Environmental Information Nudges on Meat Choices: Where Does Goat Meat Fit?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
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The Socialization of Meritocracy and Market Justice Preferences at School

Societies
Previous research has shown that schools often justify student performance differences using meritocratic ideals. One potential consequence of such ideals is the legitimization of outcome inequalities across various spheres, including those traditionally
Juan Carlos Castillo, Mauricio Salgado, Kevin Carrasco, Andreas Laffert   +3 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consistency Conditions for Beliefs and Intentions.

, 2015
Icard et al. introduce a semantics for actions over time, provide an axiomatization for this logic, and use this logic to define coherence conditions for a belief-intention database. First, we show incompleteness of their axiomatization and we adapt their semantics and provide a complete axiomatization for it.
Marc van Zee, Mehdi Dastani, Dragan Doder, Leendert W. N. van der Torre   +3 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source