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Grade prediction in the middle east: a post-pandemic case study of the optimism bias. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Pilotti MAE, El Alaoui K, Waked A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Trusting the stock market [PDF]

, 2005
We provide a new explanation to the limited stock market participation puzzle. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated.
Guiso, Luigi, Sapienza, Paola, Zingales, Luigi   +2 more
core  

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimism bias regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study of lower-income older adults in Thailand. [PDF]

Ann Med, 2023
Vicerra PMM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Biased Risk Perceptions of Longevity and Disability in Old Age [PDF]

Rational learning theories postulate that information channels and cognitive biases such as individual optimism may influence an individuals assessment of the risk of undesired events, especially with regard to those that have a cumulative nature.
Joan Costa Font
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Integrating Digital Technologies Into Biochemistry Education: A Decade of Efforts, Pandemic Impacts, and Emerging Insights

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review critically examines the integration of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) in biochemistry education over the past decade, highlighting both the benefits and challenges from a critical theoretical perspective. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant literature, followed by thematic analysis and
Francis Pereira‐Dias, Marina Bazzo de Espíndola   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The unbearable trauma of being : death, hope, and (in)humanity in the work of Cormac McCarthy [PDF]

, 2016
For as long as the self-christened homo sapiens has roamed the Earth, various mythologies and their respective afterlives have followed without fail.
Dent, Kelly
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Sharp Optimality in Density Deconvolution with Dominating Bias. II

Theory of Probability & Its Applications, 2008
We consider estimation of the common probability density $f$ of i.i.d. random variables $X_i$ that are observed with an additive i.i.d. noise. We assume that the unknown density $f$ belongs to a class $\mathcal{A}$ of densities whose characteristic function is described by the exponent $\exp(- |u|^r)$ as $|u|\to \infty$, where $ >0$, $r>0$. The
Butucea, C., Tsybakov, A.B.
openaire   +3 more sources

Digital Technologies Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: The Mediating Role of Sustainability Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the economic consequences of Digital Technologies Disclosure (DTD), focusing on its impact on the cost of capital. The increasing significance of digital transformation in shaping corporate strategies and market perceptions motivates the study.
Hussein Mohsen Saber Ahmed, Awad Elsayed Awad Ibrahim, Khaldoon Albitar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When deciding creates overconfidence

Judgment and Decision Making
To the known causes of overconfidence in decisions and judgments, we reveal another source that derives from a bias during the act of decision making.
Peter J. Boyle, J. Edward Russo, Juyoung Kim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source