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Is bounded rationality a capacity, enabling learning?
Novarese, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bateson. Learning requires to recognize a series of situations as identical and then to observe the effect of given variables … hypothesis to be continuously tested. This vision of bounds and learning has many implications for the debate on rationality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616822
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The transition to market-based economic education: evaluating program effectiveness in Kazakhstan
Grimes, Paul W.; Millea, Meghan J.; Campbell, Randall C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article presents an analysis of a program designed to enhance economic literacy through teacher training in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The cognitive and affective outcomes for high school students who were taught by teachers trained through the National Council on Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112097
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An understanding of influence on human behavior
Popp, Alexandru W. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We describe a candid model for learning, why and how learning transpires. We investigate the original as well as the … leading conditions of the learning process. We provide an insight into the realm of beliefs and their formation, their … the influence that learning in general has on human behavior. …
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Organizations as congitive systems :what do they process and deliver?
Biggiero, Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
nature of cognition and the other the famous mind-body problem. Cognition can be associated with the capability of … organizational cognition. Applied to the study of organizations, the mind-body problem concerns the possibility (if any) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260342
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The One Savior Paradigm
Zeps, Dainis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The one savior paradigm is discussed not only as doctrinal aspect of religious teachings but as one of mostly manifested aspect of our psychic that should be adequately investigated. We suggest simple idea that could serve as starting cognitive model for the one savior paradigm, that might give...
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Hayek’s approach to cognitive and social order
Göbel, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The human being can be regarded as a product of evolution. She has prevailed in the evolutionary process because of her ability to create and to use knowledge. The creation and the use of knowledge depend on the cognitive and on the social order. Both types of order are interdependent. Hayek...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836162
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Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Explaining the Choices of Cognitively Limited Actors
Lupia, Arthur; Zharinova, Natasha; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about human reasoning. One such assumption, that political actors think in complex and similar ways when assessing strategies, is nested within widely used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. Empirical research casts doubt...
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Investment decisions, equivalent risk and bounded rationality
Magni, Carlo Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The Net Present Value maximizing model shows fallacies and inconsistencies that may be easily unmasked by performing a cognitive analysis of the decision-making process implied by the maximization problem. The model may be conveniently rescued if the maximizing version of the criterion is shunt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619621
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Cognitive load and strategic sophistication
Allred, Sarah; Duffy, Sean; Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the relationship between the cognitive load manipulation and strategic sophistication. The cognitive load manipulation is designed to reduce the subject's cognitive resources that are available for deliberation on a choice. In our experiment, subjects are placed under a high cognitive...
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A Life-Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India
Velamuri, Malathi; Onur, Ilke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
indicate that circumstances in childhood have an impact on later-life cognition. A decomposition analysis reveals that the … predicted cognition gap is driven by differences in characteristics between men and women, as well as the asymmetric returns to … sufficient to close the gender gaps in cognition. In turn, this has serious implications for a rapidly aging society like India. …
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