Sudanese Women?s Usage of Interruptions

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Stuck in the Adoption Funnel: The Effect of Interruptions in the Adoption Process on Usage

Many firms have introduced internet-based customer self-service applications, such as online payments or brokerage services. Despite high initial signup rates, not all customers actually shift their dealings online. We investigate whether the multi-stage nature of the adoption process (an ‘adoption funnel’) for such technologies can explain this low take-up. We use exogenous variation in events...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Interrupt me: External interruptions are less disruptive than self-interruptions

Interruptions are part of everyday life and are known to be disruptive. With the current study we investigated which kind of interruption is more disruptive: external interruptions or self-interruptions. We conducted two experiments, one behavioral experiment (28 participants) and one in which pupil dilation was measured (21 participants). In both experiments, self-interruptions made participan...