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When designing economic policies, policy makers work with the assumption that targeted beneficiaries would respond in a manner that would lead to success of the policy.
Seth Oppong
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Preference for increasing wages: How do people value various streams of income?
Prior studies have found that subjects prefer an improving sequence of income over a constant sequence, even if the constant sequence offers a larger present-discounted value. However, little is known about how these preferences vary with the size of the
Sean Duffy, John Smith
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Examining psychology of science as a potential contributor to science policy [PDF]
The psychology of science is the least developed member of the family of science studies. It is growing, however, increasingly into a promising discipline. After a very brief review of this emerging sub-field of psychology, we call for it to be invited into the collection of social sciences that constitute the interdisciplinary field of science policy.
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We conduct a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of a light-touch, low-cost psychological intervention on psychological well-being and economic decision-making in a developing country setting.
Victoria Baranov+2 more
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Managing mental & psychological wellbeing amidst COVID-19 pandemic: Positive psychology interventions [PDF]
COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the roots of healthcare facilities worldwide, with the US being one of the most affected countries irrespective of being a superpower. Along with the current pandemic, COVID-19 can cause a secondary crisis of mental health pandemic if left unignored.
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Existe uma controvérsia na literatura relativa ao desenvolvimento da representação da desigualdade econômica. A questão levantada por estas investigações é: Os atributos do conhecimento desta noção de desigualdade econômica são coletivos ou individuais ...
Antonio Roazzi+2 more
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Simple models predict behavior at least as well as behavioral scientists [PDF]
How accurately can behavioral scientists predict behavior? To answer this question, we analyzed data from five studies in which 640 professional behavioral scientists predicted the results of one or more behavioral science experiments. We compared the behavioral scientists' predictions to random chance, linear models, and simple heuristics like ...
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Guilt aversion in economics and psychology [PDF]
We investigate whether the concept of guilt aversion in economics is related to the psychological characterization of the same phenomenon. For trust games and dictator games we report correlations between the guilt sensitivity measured within a framework of psychological games most common in economics and the guilt sensitivity measured using a ...
Charles Bellemare+3 more
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Abstract Objectives This study examines the associations between water insecurity, self‐reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health among 225 Awajún adults (107 women; 118 men) living in the Peruvian Amazon, a “water‐abundant” region.
Paula Skye Tallman+3 more
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Psicologia economica e fiscale tra occultamento e ‘spinte gentili’
Economic and fiscal psychology between concealment and 'gentle pushes' ----- Abstract --- The history of both psychology and economics is a long succession of mutual ‘contaminations’.
Luigi Ferrari
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