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Department of Psychology … permitting experimental controls such as random placement of participants into conditions and random display of stimuli … Image Theory, a model asserts the presentation of the information and preparation of the decision maker influences a …
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predictive information; the latter focuses on the process by which the decision maker acquires this strategy. In the first part … these experiments was how the format of displaying visual information affects subsequent judgments and decisions. Two types …
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This dissertation focuses on managerial decision making, and specifically explores conditions wherein managers may increase their propensity to escalate commitment towards a failing project. Escalation researchers (e.g. Schmidt and Calantone, 2002) have listed four classes of factors that may...
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Many large-scale national and international testing programs use the Raschmodel to govern the construction of measurement scales that can be used tomonitor standards of performance and monitor performance over time. Asignificant issue that arises in such programs is that once a decision has...
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The objectives of the dissertation are to: (1) deductively compare five commonly used multiattribute decision making techniques and clarify the meanings of weights and (2) empirically evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques. The five techniques are multiattribute utility theory (MAUT),...
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This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …
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