The Council of Psychological Advisers.

Memos to the President From a "Council of Psychological Science Advisers".

On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use “behavioral science insights to better serve the American people.” The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was issued, and this serendipity further underscores the timeliness of this special section. These articles propose many examples of t...

Detecting sparse cone alternatives for Gaussian random fields, with an application to fMRI

Taylor’s academic fields of expertise are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. He is known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy, which has been applied by central banks and financialmarket analysts around the world. He has an active interest in public policy. He served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advi...

Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisers the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: a Cross-country Perspective

The knowledge of educational advisers about the educational rules and their performance status in Shahrekord university of medical sciences

Introduction and Aim: Studentschr('39') academic counseling has been emphasized as one of the duties of faculty members in their employment regulations. Since in most studies, students did not have a positive opinion about the performance of advisors, the reason of dissatisfaction may be the inadequate information of the advisers from the educational curriculum. Therefore, the aim of this study...

Idealistic advice and pragmatic choice: a psychological distance account.

In 6 studies, we found that advice is more idealistic than choice in decisions that trade off idealistic and pragmatic considerations. We propose that because advisers are more psychologically distant from the choosers' decision problem, they construe the dilemma at a higher construal level than do choosers (Trope & Liberman, 2003, 2010). Consequently, advisers are more influenced by idealistic...