Taking Risks Behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2017 A natural view in distributive ethics is that everyone's interests matter, but the interests of the relatively worse off matter more than the interests of the relatively better off. I provide a new argument for this view.
Lara, Buchak
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Saddle-Point Properties and Nash Equilibria for Channel Games
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009 In this paper, transmission over a wireless channel is interpreted as a two-person zero-sum game, where the transmitter gambles against an unpredictable channel, controlled by nature. Mutual information is used as payoff function.
Rudolf Mathar, Anke Schmeink
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Learning to rank from medical imaging data [PDF]
, 2012 Medical images can be used to predict a clinical score coding for the severity of a disease, a pain level or the complexity of a cognitive task. In all these cases, the predicted variable has a natural order.
F. Pedregosa +11 more
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Risk preference discrepancy : a prospect relativity account of the discrepancy between risk preferences in laboratory gambles and real world investments [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, we presented evidence that people are more risk averse when investing in financial products in the real world than when they make risky choices between gambles in laboratory experiments.
Chater, Nick, Stewart, Neil, Vlaev, Ivo
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Using Computational Models to Understand the Role and Nature of Valuation Bias in Mixed Gambles
, 2023 It is a well-known observation that people tend to dislike risky situations that could potentially lead to a loss, a phenomenon that is called loss aversion. This is often explained using valuation bias, i.e., the subjective value of losses is larger than the subjective value of gains of equal magnitude.
Singhi, Nishad +2 more
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Evidence for a Common Representation of Decision Values for Dissimilar Goods in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex [PDF]
, 2009 To make economic choices between goods, the brain needs to compute representations of their values. A great deal of research has been performed to determine the neural correlates of value representations in the human brain.
Chib, Vikram S. +3 more
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Gambling Harm as a Global Public Health Concern: A Mixed Method Investigation of Trends in Wales [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: Recent research evidence has suggested that gambling is a public health concern. A number of studies report the association between gambling activity and increased instances of various other harms, including substance misuse and psychological disorders.
Bev John +8 more
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Neurocognitive decision-making processes of casual methamphetamine users
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 Neuroadaptations caused by chronic methamphetamine (MA) use are likely major contributors to high relapse rate following treatment. Thus, focusing intervention efforts at pre-empting addiction in vulnerable populations, thereby preventing MA-use-induced ...
Vita Droutman +9 more
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Editorial: work-life balance: a matter of choice? [PDF]
, 2009 Work–life balance has come to the forefront of policy discourse in developed countries in recent years, against a backdrop of globalization and rapid technological change, an ageing population and concerns over labour market participation rates ...
Acker +44 more
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Longitudinal subtypes of disordered gambling in young adults identified using mixed modeling
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 2020 OBJECTIVE: While many individuals gamble responsibly, some develop maladaptive symptoms of a gambling disorder. Gambling problems often first occur in young people, yet little is known about the longitudinal course of such symptoms and whether this course can be predicted.
Chamberlain, Samuel R +2 more
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