Do You Play?

How do you play? Identity, technology and ludic culture

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Do you play to win--or to not lose?

Some personality assessment tools are good at identifying what you like to do, but they tell you very little about whether you're good at it or how to improve if you're not. Fortunately, one way of grouping people into types is based on an attribute that does predict performance: promotion focus or prevention focus. Promotion-focused people see their goals as creating a path to advancement; the...

Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects were required to state their own preferences in this scenario. In the second, subjects were asked to state how they believed an average student would respond to the choices. In ...

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

Which Learning Style Do You Prefer to Improve EFL Learning?

The term "learning styles" refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them. Proponents of learning­style assessment contend that optimal instruction requires diagnosing individuals' learning style and tailoring instruction accordingly (pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork, 2009). There are several methods or theories that d...