Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions

Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.03.013 1053-8100/ 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). In May 2014 we organised a workshop entitled ‘‘Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions’’, hosted by the University of Birmingham and funded by an AHRC Fellowship on the epistemic innocence of imperfect ...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Implicit bias, awareness and imperfect cognitions

Are individuals responsible for behaviour that is implicitly biased? Implicitly biased actions are those which manifest the distorting influence of implicit associations. That they express these 'implicit' features of our cognitive and motivational make up has been appealed to in support of the claim that, because individuals lack the relevant awareness of their morally problematic discriminato...

clinical governance: costs and benefits

Costs and Benefits of Beef Cattle Fattening Schemes in some Selected Areas of North West Tanzania

This study highlights the costs and benefits of indigenous beef cattle fattening schemes in Shinyanga Urban and Kishapu Districts in Tanzania. Specifically, in this study the net profit (NP) for fatteners between beef cattle fattening schemes has been determined. The schemes were divided into two main categories, scheme 1 in which the animals were fed on cottonseed hulls (CSHL) based diets and ...