Animal Decisions – A Look Across the Fence

Animal Decisions – A Look Across the Fence

It has been widely recognized that most decisions are made in a social context, and that these contexts do influence decisionmaking. The questions remains whether this influence is restricted to humans or primates, or whether this is a more general theme in animal decision-making. Social foraging theory predicts that an animal’s foraging choices are not only influenced by the balance in the rat...

A closer look at decisions to quit

Aspects of March and Simon’s (1958) subjective expected utility model and a prediction of Lee and Mitchell’s (1994) unfolding model of voluntary employee turnover were tested. A policy capturing simulation that varied high, moderate, and low levels of five job characteristics was used to model voluntary turnover decision processes for 532 nurses. Survey measures of these job characteristics obt...

A CRITICAL LOOK ANIMAL AT EXPERIMENTATION A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

A new look at the informational gain of soft decisions

This paper develops a new systematic method of studying the benefits of 2-bit soft decisions by applying the concepts of information processing theory. We quantify performance in terms of the information transfer ratio and demonstrate the performance gain over hard decision detectors in several noise environments. In addition, we show that likelihood ratio tests maximize the information transfe...