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Informative social interactions [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018 Household finances are confidential and discussions are limited to a subset of peers. We collect novel representative survey data to examine separately whether interactions with inner and outer social circles influence return perceptions, expectations, and exposure to a widely known financial instrument in a developed economy with multiple information ...
Arrondel, Luc +3 more
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Smoking and Social Interaction [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers in their midst to stop smoking, even though the disutility from smoking exceeds the utility from ...
Poutvaara, Panu, Siemers, Lars-H. R.
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Acta Psychologica, 2022 When we read fiction, we encounter characters that interact in the story. As such, we encode that information and comprehend the stories. Prior studies suggest that this comprehension process is facilitated by taking the perspective of characters during ...
Abdulaziz Abubshait +2 more
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Mind the Seat Limit: On Capacity Management in Public Automated Shuttles
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021 With ever growing automation of public transport automated shuttles offer an attractive alternative in areas where traffic regulations limit the deployment of large buses (city centres) or where low degrees of utilization renders the manual vehicles ...
Alexander G. Mirnig +6 more
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Human detection thresholds of DC, AC, and hybrid electric fields: a double-blind study
Environmental Health, 2021 Background In the course of the ongoing transition of electric energy systems, transmission corridors are often upgraded to higher voltages and other technologies leading to another quality of human exposure.
Michael Kursawe +6 more
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Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 In this paper, we present the results of our long-term study on use of a voice assistant (Amazon Alexa via Amazon Echo Dot) in nine families with children and no previous experience with this technology. The study was conducted over the course of 5 weeks
Lina Mavrina +5 more
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Social inclusion of robots depends on the way a robot is presented to observers
Paladyn, 2022 Research has shown that people evaluate others according to specific categories. As this phenomenon seems to transfer from human–human to human–robot interactions, in the present study we focused on (1) the degree of prior knowledge about technology, in ...
Roselli Cecilia +2 more
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 In this paper, we investigate the impact of sensory sensitivity during robot-assisted training for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
P. Chevalier +5 more
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Upper limb exercise with physical and virtual robots: Visual sensitivity affects task performance
Paladyn, 2021 We investigated the influence of visual sensitivity on the performance of an imitation task with the robot R1 in its virtual and physical forms. Virtual and physical embodiments offer different sensory experience to the users.
Chevalier Pauline +6 more
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Assessing Automatic Approach-Avoidance Behavior in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 The use of virtual reality (VR) promises enormous potential for studying human behavior. While approach and avoidance tendencies have been explored in various areas of basic and applied psychology, such as attitude and emotion research, basic learning ...
Juliane Degner +3 more
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