It’s my choice! Investigating barriers to pro-social blood donating behaviour

Moral enhancement and pro-social behaviour.

Moral enhancement is a topic that has sparked much current interest in the world of bioethics. The possibility of making people ‘better,’ not just in the conventional enhancement sense of improving health and other desirable (and desired) qualities and capacities, but by making them somehow more moral, more decent, altogether better people, has attracted attention from both advocates1 2 and sce...

Artificial Intelligence and Pro-Social Behaviour

If artificial intelligence (AI) were achievable, what would the consequences be for human society?1 Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to this question is already at hand. We are achieving rapid and accelerating success in our quest to build AI. That very success — and the slowness with which both the academic community and the general public have come to recognise it — has shown how little we un...

Hyper-Rational Choice and Economic Behaviour

In this paper, with help of the concept of hyper-rationality, we model the interaction between two investment companies by an important game as trickery game that has special equilibrium which called hyper-equilibrium. In trickery game, one company can choose cooperation with another company until the last moment and finally changes his action to non-cooperation which incur more loss to an oppo...

Investigating consumption anxiety thesis: aesthetic choice, narrativisation and social performance

Investigating the Barriers to G2G Adoption

Compared to other e-government sectors, Government-to-Government (G2G) is a new research area. Up to now, a commonly accepted definition doesn’t exist and the domain of G2G projects is still unclear. The short experience accumulated in these few years isn’t enough for the responsible groups to extrapolate widely accepted theories. Many theories are concerned only with the technical aspect of in...