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Optimism and Economic Choice [PDF]
This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied
David Robinson, Manju Puri
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Regulating Complacency: Human Limitations and Legal Efficacy [PDF]
, 2007 This Article examines how insights into limited human rationality can improve financial regulation. The Article identifies four categories of limitations—herd behavior, cognitive biases, overreliance on heuristics, and a proclivity to panic—that ...
Enoksson, Fredrik +3 more
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Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract A preregistered experimental study tested the effects of message framing on breastfeeding and formula‐feeding attitudes and intentions. It also examined whether affective reaction and information acceptance mediated these effects, and whether self‐efficacy and perceived behavioral control (PBC) moderated them. Participants (282 pregnant women)
Margherita Guidetti +2 more
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Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 129-140, February 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing upon multiple case studies, this article examines how parenting double standards are reproduced in situations where women who have experienced domestic violence have been seen as ‘alienating’ mothers, while the men who have perpetrated the violence have been seem as ‘good’ or ‘good enough’ fathers.
Simon Lapierre +4 more
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In many settings, human beings are boundedly rational. A distinctive and insufficiently explored legal response to bounded rationality is to attempt to "debias through law," by steering people in more rational directions.
Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls
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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3‐dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent challenges therein ...
Bryan Wilson, Peter J. Edmunds
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Research on Education and MediaThe rapid digitization of communication in the last decade, especially in social networking spaces, has contributed to radical changes in the virtual language environment in Sri Lanka.
Dassanayake Noel
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Expectations with unrealistic optimism
Several studies claim that people have a tendency to be overoptimistic (Coelho; 2010; Lovallo & Kahnenman, 2003). Furthermore, some researchers suggest that optimism could be prevalent in managers as a result of the selection process (Heaton, 2002). Nevertheless, there is very little literature about the subject of optimism and managerial decisions ...
Brea-Solis, Umberto +2 more
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Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 90-102, February 2026.ABSTRACT The emphasis on digitalization has significantly affected public sector organizations, including municipalities, as they strive to improve operational efficiency, transparency, and public value. Nevertheless, historical examples reveal high failure rates in digitalization projects, often resulting in delays, financial losses, and political ...
Joakim Engström +2 more
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