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Characteristics of Terrorism
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2009
just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753167
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Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber – Integrating Economics and Psychology
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009
This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … agent might decide to become a suicide bomber – or to announce the attack and defect later. The paper shows why the decision … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why …
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Theoretical perspective on rebound effects from a social science point of view: Working paper to prepare empirical psychological and sociological studies in the REBOUND project
Peters, Anja; Sonnberger, Marco; Dütschke, Elisabeth; … - 2012
The replacement of appliances and other energy using products by more efficient ones is generally regarded as an effective strategy to reduce energy demand. However, the savings realized by this strategy may be lower than those theoretically expected or calculated from a technological point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307925
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Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?: The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Levine, David K. - 2012
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and … them.Levine's book is essential reading for students and teachers of economic theory and anyone interested in the … psychology of economics. …
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Subjective rationality. The search for visually perceivable principles of order in urban research until 1975
Brünenberg, Stefanie - In: sub\urban : Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 10 (2022) 2/3, pp. 43-69
"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …
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How prevalent is post-decision dissonance? Some doubts and new evidence
Holden, Steinar - 2009
Recent research is exploring the case for cognitive or post-decision dissonance using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … choice against a different alternative item. This tendency is interpreted as evidence for cognitive or post-decision … evidence of post-decision dissonance after a choice between items where one was viewed as more attractive than the other, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285567
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Optimism, pessimism and the unforeseen: Modelling an endogenous business cycle driven by strong beliefs
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2002
Indicators of trust, confidence, optimism or sentiment among consumers and/or investors, are published continuously in the mass media. More importantly, these indices seem not only to reflect how the state of the real economy is perceived by private agents, but can also help predict the future...
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Non-Bayesian updating in a social learning experiment
De Filippis, Roberta; Guarino, Antonio; Jehiel, Philippe; … - 2020
In our laboratory experiment, subjects, in sequence, have to predict the value of a good. The second subject in the sequence makes his prediction twice: first ("first belief"), after he observes his predecessor's prediction; second ("posterior belief"), after he observes his private signal. We...
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How effective are rewards programs in promoting payment card usage? Empirical evidence
Carbó-Valverde, Santiago; Liñares-Zegarra, José M. - 2009
Card issuers have mainly relied on rewards programs as their main strategic driver to increase electronic payments. However, there is scarce evidence on the effectiveness of rewards programs. This paper offers novel evidence on two key issues: i) it measures the impact of rewards programs on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605187
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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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