The Apegos: Do Not Stop Being A Choice

The Problem of Implicature in "Do Not Track" Choice Design

In an observational study using an eye-tracker, subjects were presented with a modeless cookie choice dialog preceding a short survey on Internet privacy. Subjects were later asked whether they believed ad trackers were present on the site or not. 41% believed there either were or were not ad trackers on the site based on not clicking ”allow” or ”block”, respectively. These results suggest that...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Do Spiritual Well-Being and Demographic Characteristics Influence the Decision on Being an Organ Donor?

Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of spiritual well-being and demographic characteristics in signing the donor card. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Hamadan in 2018. Six hundred employees from 57 offices (out of 60) were selected using a random sampling method. Data gathering was carried out using a self-administered questionnaire. Th...

Market Feedback, Cost System Choice and Competitive Pricing: the Advantage of Not Being a Leader

This study experimentally investigates the value of cost report accuracy in an interactive pricing context. Market agents received feedback about their own profits via either a volume-based costing or a more accurate activity-based costing report. They also received a typical market report containing the performance of their rivals. While prior work suggested that market discipline and learning...

Humans do not evidence choice biases in simple discrimination tasks

Choice behavior in detection tasks demonstrates that perceptual decision-making not only depends on sensory evidence, but also on choice biases: the tendency to choose one alternative over the others independently of the sensory evidence. To assess whether choice biases pervade other perceptual decision scenarios, we asked humans to perform a simple common perceptual discrimination task with tw...