Observing Attitudes, Intentions, and Expectations (1945-73)

Instructions, Intentions and Expectations

Based on an ongoing attempt to integrate Natural Language instructions with human figure animation, we demonstrate that agents' understanding and use of instructions can complement what they can derive from the environment in which they act. We focus on two attitudes that contribute to agents' behavior their intentions and their expectations and shown how Natural Language instructions contribut...

Forecasting: Expectations, Intentions, and Confidence

All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each stakeholder), and more economically efficient (equally or more efficient and versatile for less time and/or m...

Intentions and expectations in temporal binding.

Recently, it has been shown that the perceived times of voluntary movements and their effects are perceived as shifted towards each other. This temporal binding phenomenon was explained by an integrated representation of movement and effect, facilitating operant learning and the experience of intentionality. Here, we investigated whether temporal binding depends on explicit intentional attribut...

Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations*

In this paper, we explore the value of an underutilized political polling question: who do you think will win the upcoming election? We demonstrate that this expectation question points to the winning candidate more often than the standard political polling question of voter intention: if the election were held today, who would you vote for? Further, the results of the expectation question tran...

Consumer Attitudes, Expectations, and Financial Market Participation