education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …

just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …

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 …

We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision …

We challenge the standard definition of economic rationality as consistency by making use of a novel distinction … between axioms of decision theory: consistency and preference axioms. We argue that this distinction has been overlooked by … the literature and, as a result, evidence that consistency is a proxy of decision-making ability is often based on …

choices can be excluded on the basis of a decision maker's v. Neumann-Morgenstern utility function, her knowledge of past … observations, and the assumption of Bayesian rationality. Since no betting strategy is irrational, Bayesianism is useless as a …