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Partial advance information in a choice reaction task.

British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)

LEONARD JA.
PMID: 13536311
Br J Psychol. 1958 May;49(2):89-96. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1958.tb00644.x.

No abstract available.

Human cooperation.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Rand DG, Nowak MA.
PMID: 23856025
Trends Cogn Sci. 2013 Aug;17(8):413-25. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.003. Epub 2013 Jul 13.

Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a conundrum. Natural selection opposes the evolution of cooperation unless...

Origins of "us" versus "them": prelinguistic infants prefer similar others.

Cognition

Mahajan N, Wynn K.
PMID: 22668879
Cognition. 2012 Aug;124(2):227-33. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.003. Epub 2012 Jun 04.

A central feature of human psychology is our pervasive tendency to divide the social world into "us" and "them". We prefer to associate with those who are similar to us over those who are different, preferentially allocate resources to...

How poorer quality of life in adolescence predicts subsequent type 1 diabetes management and control.

Patient education and counseling

Hilliard ME, Mann KA, Peugh JL, Hood KK.
PMID: 23182614
Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Apr;91(1):120-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.10.014. Epub 2012 Nov 22.

OBJECTIVE: Detriments in quality of life (QOL) may contribute to the common, costly decline in adolescents' type 1 diabetes management and control, yet we know little about how this might happen.METHODS: Participants were 150 adolescents (age 13-18) with type...

Implications of multiple-choice testing in nursing education.

Nurse education today

Bailey PH, Mossey S, Moroso S, Cloutier JD, Love A.
PMID: 22071272
Nurse Educ Today. 2012 Aug;32(6):e40-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.09.011. Epub 2011 Nov 08.

The evaluation of knowledge/competence is understood as an essential component of nursing education and practice. As such, nurse educators have a plethora of existing evaluation strategies from which to choose. A common written evaluative format used across all higher...

Re: Who's your nanny.

Connecticut medicine

Bentivegna J.
PMID: 20949692
Conn Med. 2010 Sep;74(8):509.

No abstract available.

Gossip and ostracism promote cooperation in groups.

Psychological science

Feinberg M, Willer R, Schultz M.
PMID: 24463551
Psychol Sci. 2014 Mar;25(3):656-64. doi: 10.1177/0956797613510184. Epub 2014 Jan 24.

The widespread existence of cooperation is difficult to explain because individuals face strong incentives to exploit the cooperative tendencies of others. In the research reported here, we examined how the spread of reputational information through gossip promotes cooperation in...

The economics of choice: lessons from the U.S. health-care market.

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy

Hanoch Y, Rice T.
PMID: 21122041
Health Expect. 2011 Mar;14(1):105-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00646.x. Epub 2010 Dec 02.

The English health-care system is moving towards increasing consumers' choice. Following economic thinking, it is assumed that such a policy will improve quality, enhance patient satisfaction and reduce health disparities. Indeed, the English health-care system has already built the...

Willingness-to-pay for water quality improvements in Chinese rivers: an empirical test on the ordering effects of multiple-bounded discrete choices.

Journal of environmental management

Wang H, He J, Kim Y, Kamata T.
PMID: 24184528
J Environ Manage. 2013 Dec 15;131:256-69. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.07.034. Epub 2013 Oct 31.

This paper presents a study of the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for surface water quality improvement in China. In the Huaping County of Yunnan Province, we found that people are willing to pay 74 Yuan (or US$12.33 in 2012 prices) per...

Understanding the dynamics of sustainable social-ecological systems: human behavior, institutions, and regulatory feedback networks.

Bulletin of mathematical biology

Anderies JM.
PMID: 25270101
Bull Math Biol. 2015 Feb;77(2):259-80. doi: 10.1007/s11538-014-0030-z. Epub 2014 Oct 01.

I present a general mathematical modeling framework that can provide a foundation for the study of sustainability in social- ecological systems (SESs). Using basic principles from feedback control and a sequence of specific models from bioeconomics and economic growth,...

How the polls can be both spot on and dead wrong: using choice blindness to shift political attitudes and voter intentions.

PloS one

Hall L, Strandberg T, Pärnamets P, Lind A, Tärning B, Johansson P.
PMID: 23593244
PLoS One. 2013 Apr 10;8(4):e60554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060554. Print 2013.

Political candidates often believe they must focus their campaign efforts on a small number of swing voters open for ideological change. Based on the wisdom of opinion polls, this might seem like a good idea. But do most voters...

Features of multifinality.

Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc

Kruglanski AW, Köpetz C, Bélanger JJ, Chun WY, Orehek E, Fishbach A.
PMID: 22854862
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2013 Feb;17(1):22-39. doi: 10.1177/1088868312453087. Epub 2012 Aug 01.

Diverse facets of the multifinality configuration in goal-directed behavior are identified and empirically explored. The multifinality construct denotes a motivational structure wherein a single means is linked to several ends. A multifinality configuration maximizes value that a given means...

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