Behavioral economics is based on the idea that individuals' decisions are affected by systematic and predictable cognitive biases and that these same biases can be leveraged to change behavior and improve decision-making. Insights from behavioral economics have been used to encourage a range of desired behaviors but have rarely been used in disaster preparedness and response, though traditional...

Information processing biases, such as interpretation bias and attention bias, play a significant role in social anxiety disorder (Williams et al., 1997). Interpretation bias refers to the tendency to interpret both negative and neutral stimuli as more negative than they are objectively. Attention bias refers to the tendency to attend preferentially to threatening stimuli. Socially anxious indi...

objective: many behavioral problems are resulting from inappropriate parenting styles and inattention to behavioral-emotional difficulties in childhood. the purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and dimensions of children's maladaptive behaviors. methods: 120 six-year old boys, who were enrolled in the first grade of elementary school, were selec...

Human subjects exhibit “sequential effects” in many psychological experiments, in which they respond more rapidly and accurately to a stimulus when it reinforces a local pattern in stimulus history, compared to when it violates such a pattern. This is often the case even if the local pattern arises by chance, such that stimulus history has no real predictive power, and therefore any behavioral ...

Economic modeling provides a formal mechanism to understand user incentives and behavior in online systems. In this paper we describe the process of building a parameterized economic model of usercontributed ratings in an online movie recommender system. We constructed a theoretical model to formalize our initial understanding of the system, and collected survey and behavioral data to calibrate...