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Sensitivity to Sunk Costs Depends on Attention to the Delay

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
In the WebSurf task, humans forage for videos paying costs in terms of wait times on a time-limited task. A variant of the task in which demands during the wait time were manipulated revealed the role of attention in susceptibility to sunk costs ...
Rebecca Kazinka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Tax Disclosures and Investor Perceptions Publications d'informations fiscales et perceptions des investisseurs

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators are increasingly considering and mandating additional public tax disclosures to enhance transparency and promote scrutiny of corporate tax avoidance. We conducted three experiments to examine how such disclosures influence retail investors' perceptions of firms with identical effective tax rates but different tax avoidance methods ...
Bart Dierynck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Episodic Salutary Experiences (ESE): A New Type of Positive Affect and its Relationship to Physical Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Prior work has shown that positive affect is related to and can foster physical health. Recently, a subtype of positive affect has been identified, known as episodic salutary experiences (ESE).
Nusinow, Natalie
core   +1 more source

Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Can Amazon's Mechanical Turk be used to recruit participants for internet intervention trials? A pilot study involving a randomized controlled trial of a brief online intervention for hazardous alcohol use

open access: yesInternet Interventions, 2017
Objectives: To determine whether Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) might be a viable means of recruiting participants for online intervention research.
John A. Cunningham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caltech-UCSD Birds 200 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Caltech-UCSD Birds 200 (CUB-200) is a challenging image dataset annotated with 200 bird species. It was created to enable the study of subordinate categorization, which is not possible with other popular datasets that focus on basic level categories ...
Belongie, Serge   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Sustainability in Healthcare: The Role of Digital Technologies for Improving Patient Engagement

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability in healthcare is getting considerable research attention as systems worldwide tend to balance environmental, social, and economic factors. In this context, digital technologies have demonstrated significant potential to enhance engagement among different consumer groups across various industries.
Francesco Schiavone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

MTurk Survey on "Mood and Personality". Documentation

open access: yes, 2016
Social desirability and the fear of negative consequences often deter a considerable share of survey respondents from responding truthfully to sensitive questions. Thus, resulting prevalence estimates are biased. Indirect techniques for surveying sensitive questions such as the Randomized Response Technique are intended to mitigate misreporting by ...
Höglinger, Marc, Jann, Ben
openaire   +2 more sources

Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
wiley   +1 more source

Using Mechanical Turk to recruit participants for internet intervention research: experience from recruitment for four trials targeting hazardous alcohol consumption

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an online portal operated by Amazon where ‘requesters’ (individuals or businesses) can submit jobs for ‘workers.’ MTurk is used extensively by academics as a quick and cheap means of collecting questionnaire data ...
John A. Cunningham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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