How serious are common childhood fears?

Childhood Fears

How Common Are Earths? How Common Are Jupiters?

Among the billions of planetary systems that fill the Universe , we would like to know how ours fits in. Exoplanet data can already be used to address the question: How common are Jupiters? Here we discuss a simple analysis of recent exoplanet data indicating that Jupiter is a typical massive planet rather than an outlier. A more difficult question to address is: How common are Earths? However,...

How common are common priors?

Article history: Received 30 November 2007 Available online 31 August 2011 JEL classification: D82 D83

How Serious are serious games? Some lessons from Infra-games

In this paper, the authors explore the possible contribution of serious games for advanced academic and/or professional learning in particular to support the decision-making and 1

How serious are expressions of protected values?

People think that some things that they value should be protected from trade-offs with other things. For example, people think that no economic gain is great enough to justify clear-cutting old-growth forest. The authors probed the stability of these protected values (PVs) in several ways. Subjects were asked to think of counterexamples, and this had some effect on PVs. Subjects were then asked...