How five-year-old children distribute rewards when equal distributions are impossible

[Relations between reward-distribution patterns and distribution strategies: how five-year-old children distribute rewards].

The relationship between children's reward-distribution judgments and their distribution strategies was investigated. Five-year-old children (N = 61) were presented with two stories where two characters made different numbers of origami stars. The children were asked to distribute different numbers of rewards to the characters: equal to (Middle-N), less than (Small-N), or more than (Large-N) th...

The Educability Level of Five-Year-Old Children

The May number of the Psychological Clinic contains a report of an experiment conducted in a kindergarten for the purpose of discovering the competency of a group of five-year-old children to do first-grade work. That kindergarten was in one of the poorest sections of Philadelphia. The present report is based upon work conducted in two kindergartens in a public school in one of the best residen...

Information-based Incentivisation when Rewards are Inadequate

In many cases, intermediaries play a major role in linking between service providers and their target users. Yet, attracting intermediaries at a marketplace to promote a service to their existing customers can be very challenging, since they are usually very busy and would incur additional cost as a result of such promotion. In response, this paper presents an information-based incentivisation ...

When some are more equal than others.

When linear and weak discrepancy are equal

The linear discrepancy of a poset P is the least k such that there is a linear extension L of P such that if x and y are incomparable, then |hL(x)− hL(y)| ≤ k. Whereas the weak discrepancy is the least k such that there is a weak extension W of P such that if x and y are incomparable, then |hW (x)− hW (y)| ≤ k. This paper resolves a question of Tanenbaum, Trenk, and Fishburn on characterizing w...