Self-Reinforcing and Self-Frustrating Decisions

Self-reinforcing market dominance

Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms with an initial cost advantage are more likely to invest in cost reductions than firms with higher in...

Self-assessments and mating decisions

self-revision and third party revision in translation

اهمیت این پژوهش در آن بود که به گفت? بسیاری از پژوهشگرانِ حوز? بازبینی ترجمه، ادبیات موجود در این زمینه به لحاظ نظری و عملی چندان قوی نیست و بخش های موجود نیز برداشت مناسبی از این مرحل? فرایند ترجمه ندارند، اگرچه اخیراً توجه به آن به صورت نظام مند افزایش یافته است. در عین حال، پژوهش های موجود از یک سو بر دگربازبینی بیشتر از خودبازبینی تأکید دارند و از دیگر سو تنها به لحاظ نظری به این موضوع می پرد...

Self-assessments and mating decisions 1/55 Running head: Self-assessments and mating decisions How self-assessments can guide human mating decisions

(2007). Mating Intelligence: New insights into intimate relationships, human sexuality, and the mind's reproductive system. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum (pp. 37-75).

Emergence of self-reinforcing information bottlenecks in multilevel selection

We explain how hierarchical organization of biological systems emerges naturally during evolution, through a transition in the units of individuality. We will show how these transitions are the result of competing selective forces operating at different levels of organization, each level having different units of individuality. Such a transition represents a singular point in the evolutionary p...