Results 91 to 100 of about 32,193 (282)

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Regret and Information [PDF]

open access: yes
Following Quiguin (1994), we propose a general model of preferences that accounts for individuals\' regret concerns. By confronting the commonly-accepted additive and multiplicative regret utility functions to this model, we establish certain ...
Emmanuelle GABILLON (GREThA, CNRS, UMR 5113)
core  

Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Regret-Based Risky Route Choice on the Traffic Equilibrium for Emergency Evacuation

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2020
Following the research on human decision-making under risk and uncertainty, the purpose of this paper is to analyze evacuees’ risky route decision behavior and its effect on traffic equilibrium.
Ze Wang, Haiqiang Yang, Linglin Ni
doaj   +1 more source

Do Eco‐Emotions and Climate Change Perceptions Influence Environmentally Conscious Decisions? Implications for Business Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uninformed decision‐making and regret about delaying childbearing decisions: A cross‐sectional study

open access: yesNursing Open, 2020
Aim The aim of this study was to examine regret over the timing of the childbearing decision and reasons for its delay. Design A cross‐sectional study. Methods This cross‐sectional study included 219 women and 169 men referred to fertility facilities in ...
Tomoko Adachi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ex-Post Regret Learning in Games with Fixed and Random Matching: The Case of Private Values [PDF]

open access: yes
In contexts in which players have no priors, we analyze a learning pro- cess based on ex-post regret as a guide to understand how to play games of incomplete information under private values.
Roberto Serrano, Rene Saran
core   +3 more sources

Regret based Robust Solutions for Uncertain Markov Decision Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper, we seek robust policies for uncertain Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Most robust optimization approaches for these problems have focussed on the computation of {\em maximin} policies which maximize the value corresponding to the worst ...
Varakantham, Pradeep   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research progress on decision regret among parents of children with hypospadias

open access: yesHuli yanjiu
This article reviewed the concept of decision regret,the assessment tools of decision regret,the status quo of research on decision regret among parents of children with hypospadias,the influencing factors and intervention strategies of decision regret ...
ZHENG Can, ZHOU Xia, CAI Rui, HUANG Dan
doaj  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy