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Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2013
Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical evidence.
Dan M. Kahan
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The Role of Implicit Motives in Strategic Decision-Making: Computational Models of Motivated Learning and the Evolution of Motivated Agents

open access: yesGames, 2015
Individual behavioral differences in humans have been linked to measurable differences in their mental activities, including differences in their implicit motives.
Kathryn Merrick
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Responsible Decision making for Sustainable Motivation [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2018
This article examines motivation and the quality of decision making’s effect on motivation as important preconditions for organizational sustainability. The article is focused on an examination of the content and intensity of perceived motivation, and the forms of decisions that were made while motivating people.
Martina Blašková   +4 more
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Evolving Robust Policy Coverage Sets in Multi-Objective Markov Decision Processes Through Intrinsically Motivated Self-Play

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurorobotics, 2018
Many real-world decision-making problems involve multiple conflicting objectives that can not be optimized simultaneously without a compromise. Such problems are known as multi-objective Markov decision processes and they constitute a significant ...
Sherif Abdelfattah   +2 more
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Majority rule can help solve difficult tasks even when confident members opt out to serve individual interests

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
When sharing a common goal, confident and competent members are often motivated to contribute to the group, boosting its decision performance. However, it is unclear whether this process remains effective when members can opt in or out of group decisions
Kiri Kuroda   +2 more
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Review of Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers by Ellen Peters

open access: yesNumeracy, 2021
Ellen Peters’s new book Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a whirlwind tour of psychological research on numeracy and its interactions with decision-making.
Gizem Karaali
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Precautionary motives and portfolio decisions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, 2002
AbstractThis paper studies the empirical relevance of precautionary and other motives for household portfolio behaviour using recent panel data from the Netherlands. Dutch households' portfolios exhibit low degrees of risk taking and diversification. It is possible that this is the outcome of a rational, precautionary response to unavoidable exposure ...
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The role of motivation in EFL students’ perceptions of teacher/learner responsibilities and learner abilities

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2017
It is the aim of this study to investigate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students’ perceptions of teacher/learner responsibilities and learner decision-making abilities at tertiary level - questioning whether motivation has a role in these ...
Ayşegül Okay, Cem Balçıkanlı
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Science and Politics: Do People Support the Conduct and Dissemination of Politicized Research?

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017
Three studies investigated how ethical people believe it is to suppress politicized research findings and how strongly they support research on politicized topics.
Stephanie M. Anglin, Lee Jussim
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ONLINE KNOWLEDGE SHARING BEHAVIOR THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AS A DRIVER FOR ONLINE SHOPPING BEHAVIOR DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC [PDF]

open access: yesBusiness Excellence and Management, 2021
Consumer behavior changes are reflected in purchasing decision making. In general, with this pandemic situation, consumers will be motivated to carefully consider each stage of the decision because of the health risks associated with Covid-19 ...
Artanti, Yessy   +3 more
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