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Expectations are probabilistic beliefs about the future that shape and influence our perception, affect, cognition, and behavior in many contexts. This makes expectations a highly relevant concept across basic and applied psychological disciplines.
Christian Panitz +9 more
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Previously in Futures, I discussed a word that we use to form an abstract futures concept: “millennium” [1]. In its most common current usage, “millennium” is an example of a word that provides, and one might even say controls, a future orientation for ...
Junker, Kirk W.
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Expecting great expectations when expecting [PDF]
Pregnancy is a time when a woman experiences a number of unexpected biological, psychological and social changes. Traditionally, woman sought guidance and help from their mothers and/or social circles to learn how to tackle these changes. With the advent of the mobile revolution, women are now turning to mobile applications to do the same.
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Alleviation of pensioners’ poverty – a key task for the state and society in contemporary Russia
Russia is shifting to market economy under the lingering post-crisis stagnation, and the aggravation of economic stratification of its population creates additional risks to the pension system that is in a state of constant reforming.
Arkadii Konstantinovich Solov’ev
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The finite mixture (FM) model is the most commonly used model for statistical segmentation of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images because of its simple mathematical form and the piecewise constant nature of ideal brain MR images.
Yongyue Zhang +2 more
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Peeking Inside the Black Box: Visualizing Statistical Learning With Plots of Individual Conditional Expectation [PDF]
This article presents individual conditional expectation (ICE) plots, a tool for visualizing the model estimated by any supervised learning algorithm. Classical partial dependence plots (PDPs) help visualize the average partial relationship between the ...
A. Goldstein +3 more
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Thematic orders and the comprehension of subject-extracted relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
This study investigates the comprehension of three kinds of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRs) in Mandarin Chinese: standard SRs, relative clauses involving the disposal ba construction (‘disposal SRs’), and relative clauses involving the long ...
Chien-Jer Charles Lin
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Consumer Response to Corporate Hypocrisy From the Perspective of Expectation Confirmation Theory
Based on the concept of hypocrisy perception, this paper studies and discusses consumers’ response to corporate social responsibility (CSR) hypocrisy perception, discusses the formation of consumers’ hypocrisy perception from the perspective of consumers’
Wang Zhigang, Zhang Lei, Liu Xintao
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Expectation Propagation for Poisson Data [PDF]
The Poisson distribution arises naturally when dealing with data involving counts, and it has found many applications in inverse problems and imaging. In this work, we develop an approximate Bayesian inference technique based on expectation propagation ...
Arridge, Simon, Jin, Bangti, Zhang, Chen
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Lay understanding of probability distributions
How accurate are laypeople’s intuitions about probability distributions of events? The economic and psychological literatures provide opposing answers.
Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild
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