When "hope springs eternal": The role of chance in risk taking [PDF]
In most naturally occurring situations, success depends on both skill and chance. We contrast experimental market entry decisions where payoffs depend on skill as opposed to combinations of skill and chance.
Robin Hogarth, Natalia Karelaia
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Education, Aspirations and Life Satisfaction [PDF]
The idea that expanding work and consumption opportunities always increases people’s wellbeing is well established in economics but finds no support in psychology.
Francesco Ferrante
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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers [PDF]
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee’s human capital.
John H. Tyler, Eric S. Taylor
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Letter to the Editor: More Than One-third of Orthopaedic Applicants Are in the Top 10%: The Standardized Letter of Recommendation and Evaluation of Orthopaedic Resident Applicants. [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2021 London DA.
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Entrepreneurial success and failure: Confidence and fallible judgement [PDF]
Excess entry – or the high failure rate of market-entry decisions – is often attributed to overconfidence exhibited by entreprene urs. We show analytically that whereas excess entry is an inevitable consequence of imperfect assessments of entrepreneurial
Robin Hogarth, Natalia Karelaia
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Self-enhancement: food for thought
, 2008 Self-enhancement denotes a class of psychological phenomena that involve taking a tendentiously positive view of oneself. We distinguish between four levels of self-enhancement—an observed effect, an ongoing process, a personality trait, and an ...
Sedikides, Constantine, Gregg, Aiden P.
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Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data [PDF]
Recent research has confirmed both the importance of teachers in producing student achievement growth and in the variability across teachers in the ability to do that.
Amy L. Wooten +3 more
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Executive pay bandwagon and corporate innovation. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Zeng Y, Zhou M, Luo H, Zhou W.
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Does Examination Hell Pay Off? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of "Ronin" and College Education in Japan [PDF]
College-bound students in Japan undergo a process of intense preparation known as examination hell. An extreme manifestation of examination hell is the ronin phenomenon.
Ono, Hiroshi
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What does the new long-run monetary policy framework imply for the path ahead? [PDF]
Bus Econ, 2021 Evans CL.
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