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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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process of economic development. And whereas, energy is linked with the capacity to perform, the rate at which energy is … ability to affect the course of events(such as ICT revolution) will be a function of the extent to which its energy …
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Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to … across african countries is important to understanding the process of economic development. And whereas, energy is linked … with the capacity to perform, the rate at which energy is consumed for the acceleration of the pace of socio …
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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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The Internet has been exploited successfully in the past as a medium for behavioral research. This paper presents a … series of studies designed to assess Internet-based measures of drivers' risk-taking behavior. First, we compared responses … from an Internet sample with a traditional pencil-and-paper sample using established questionnaire measures of risk taking …
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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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