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Seemingly altruistic behavior and strategic ignorance in a dictator game with potential loss [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPrevious studies have indicated that in the standard binary version of the dictator game, people are less likely to behave altruistically when given the opportunity to be strategically ignorant.
Keisuke Yamamoto, Hirofumi Hashimoto
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Strategic self-ignorance [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016 We examine strategic self-ignorance—the use of ignorance as an excuse to over-indulge in pleasurable activities that may be harmful to one’s future self. Our model shows that guilt aversion provides a behavioral rationale for present-biased agents to avoid information about negative future impacts of such activities.
Thunström, Linda +4 more
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Strategic ignorance in bargaining [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can ...
Conrads, Julian, Irlenbusch, Bernd
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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2010 Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected.
Morath, Florian
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Few rights, great threats, endless struggles: setbacks and resistance in the last decade of fights for legal abortion in Brazil [PDF]
Sexual and Reproductive Health MattersThis commentary analyses the state of legal abortion in Brazil over the past decade, contextualising the increasing restrictions and political disputes surrounding the issue within broader anti-gender offensives. While Brazilian law permits abortion only
Nathália Machado Cardoso +4 more
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Human–robot collaboration in surgery at the nexus of knowledge, agency, and ownership [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHuman-robot collaboration is transforming healthcare, particularly in surgical environments. Robotic surgery systems, embodied by advanced AI, are pivotal in augmenting human expertise across specialties such as gynecology and laparoscopic surgery ...
Ezgi Merdin-Uygur +4 more
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 For over twenty years, ignorance has been a thriving research topic in sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology, leading to a rich body of literature. This article critically rethinks the contributions and limitations of ignorance studies.
Laura Barbier +3 more
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 For over twenty years, ignorance has been a thriving research topic in sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology, leading to a rich body of literature. This article critically rethinks the contributions and limitations of ignorance studies.
Laura Barbier +3 more
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 For over twenty years, ignorance has been a thriving research topic in sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology, leading to a rich body of literature. This article critically rethinks the contributions and limitations of ignorance studies.
Laura Barbier +3 more
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The Evolutionary Stability of Optimism, Pessimism and Complete Ignorance [PDF]
, 2005 We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment.
Schipper, Burkhard C.
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