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Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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This research investigated the relationship between the magnitude or scope of a stimulus and its subjective value by contrasting 2 psychological processes that may be used to construct preferences: valuation by feeling and valuation by calculation. The results show that when people rely on...
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in personnel selection. The flawed response that many organisations have taken as a result of this misinterpretation is … selection can be both acceptable and necessary in a responsible organisation.  …
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Purpose – Previous research has not demonstrated a consistent relationship between pre-employment measures of good impression (GI) response bias and subsequent job performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the likelihood that such effects would be present for the extremes of the GI...
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Background: Bipolar disorder if untreated, has severe consequences: severe role impairment, higher health care costs … never hospitalized with mental health problems. 88.80% of the patients contacted psychiatric care for the first time in … by non-specialist mental health professionals before. In contrast, diagnoses of many psychiatric disorders received after …
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, phobias, confusion, traumatic events, and other mental health problems. This article describes the socio …
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