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Music as Water: The Functions of Music from a Utilitarian Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2017
The rapid increase of technologically enhanced listening platforms gives listeners access to music with ever-increasing ease and ubiquity, giving rise to the suggestion that we should now conceptualize music as a resource similar to water; something that
Liam Maloney
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Does Utilitarian Policy such as Smoking Cessation Lend Support to Wider Aspirin Use?

open access: yesAIMS Public Health, 2015
Tobacco control policy seems to be based on a utilitarian principle that public health is best served by a range of measures that will provide overall population benefit.
Gareth Morgan
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Utilitarian Supersymmetric Gauge Model of Particle Interactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A remarkable U(1) gauge extension of the supersymmetric standard model was proposed eight years ago. It is anomaly-free, has no mu term, and conserves baryon and lepton numbers automatically.
Ma, Ernest
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Statistical Utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Given a sufficiently large population satisfying certain statistical regularities, we show that it is often possible to accurately estimate the utilitarian social welfare function and identify the welfare-maximizing social alternative, even if we only have very noisy data about individual utility functions and interpersonal utility comparisons, and ...
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Who makes utilitarian judgments? The influences of emotions on utilitarian judgments [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2011
Recent research has emphasized emotion's role in non-utilitarian judgments, but has not focused much on characteristics of subjects contributing to those judgments.
So Young Choe, Kyung-Hwan Min
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People of Lower Social Status Are More Sensitive to Hedonic Product Information—Electrophysiological Evidence From an ERP Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
Consumer psychology research has shown that individuals of different social statuses have distinctive purchase intentions for different products. Individuals of a high social status will simultaneously measure the symbolic status meaning and utilitarian ...
Di Chen   +9 more
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Utilitarian heritage

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2023
While modern heritage is often discussed as a critical resource for sustainable urban and social development, the future of such housing is often limited not by technical but rather by cultural, historical, or socio-economic constraints. In cities with a
Marina Sapunova, Sofia Borushkina
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Risky mindset: prior exposure to risk increases utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral scenarios

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Economics
Evidence of cross-domain spillover into the moral domain has been limited to altruistic and consumption behaviors. Building on the literature on spillover effects and domain-general decision processes, we predicted that choice behavior in the economic ...
Abhishek Sahai, Jaison A. Manjaly
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Традиционный мир вещей тувинцев-кочевников

open access: yesИскусство Евразии, 2019
Статья посвящена рукотворной, предметной среде обитания тувинцев, культура которых с древности формировалась в русле кочевого образа жизни. Данная тема привлекала достаточное внимание путешественников, историков, этнографов.
Будегечиева, Тамара Будегечиевна
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A work-fun model of shopping behaviour: Explaining when consumers buy on impulse

open access: yesMultidisciplinary Business Review, 2020
A study was conducted that implemented a computer-based research vehicle to capture microscopic aspects of shopping and to permit a moment-by-moment analysis of consumer-environment interactions.
Francesco Massara
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