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A normative theory of luck

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Psychologists have identified heuristics and biases that can cause people to make assumptions about factors that contribute to the success of individuals and firms, whose outcomes may have actually resulted primarily from randomness.
Chengwei Liu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endenese Fisheries: Exploratory Findings on Environmental Perceptions, Fish Effort, and Overfishing in Eastern Indonesia

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2013
Fishing fleets in South East Asia have recently experienced unprecedented expansion. Consequently, catches and regional diversity have dramatically decreased throughout the Indian Ocean. Regional governments and conservation organizations blame the local
Victoria C. Ramenzoni
doaj   +1 more source

The Role and Value of Happiness in the Work of Paul Ricoeur

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2023
The role and value of happiness in the work of Paul Ricoeur remains an understudied theme. It is especially Ricoeur’s unique dialectical understanding of happiness, unhappiness, and chance which brings a crucial and much-needed insight and correction ...
Verhoef Anné Hendrik
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Rapid qualitative and quantitative analysis of strong aroma base liquor based on SPME-MS combined with chemometrics

open access: yesFood Science and Human Wellness, 2021
To objectively classify and evaluate the strong aroma base liquors (SABLs) of different grades, solid-phase microextraction-mass spectrometry (SPME-MS) combined with chemometrics were used.
Zongbao Sun   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Good luck, bad luck, and ambiguity aversion [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2014
We report a series of experiments investigating the influence of feeling lucky or unlucky on people's choice of known-risk or ambiguous options using the traditional Ellsberg Urns decision-making task.
Briony D. Pulford, Poonam Gill
doaj   +3 more sources

The institutional determinants of CEO compensation: An international empirical evidence [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2011
Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous organizational and environmental contingencies that are outside CEOs’ control ...
Fakhfakh, H., Singhal, P.
doaj  

Fake Barns and Our Epistemological Theorizing

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Pure virtue epistemology faces the fake barn challenge. This paper explains how it can be met. Thus, it is argued that the thought experiment contains a hidden ambiguity concerning the visual ability typically ascribed to, or denied, fake barn subjects ...
Ángel García Rodríguez
doaj   +3 more sources

Luck egalitarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Luck egalitarianism is a family of egalitarian theories of distributive justice that aim to counteract the distributive effects of luck. This article explains luck egalitarianism's main ideas, and the debates that have accompanied its rise to prominence.
Knight, C., Knight, Carl
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“It usually works out, but you never know”. Emotion Work as a Strategy for Coping in the Insecure Artistic Career.

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2018
This article explores how contemporary Swedish visual artists manage and make sense of career insecurity through emotion work. The specific emotions discussed in the material are trust, hope and luck.
Sofia Lindström
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence‐Informed Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for the Psychosocial Care of Adolescents With High‐Risk Cancer: Recommendations From the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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