Modern legal scholars frequently and increasingly base their analyses on the assumption, grounded largely in the extensive experimental literature, that individuals are subject to a number of systematic behavioral biases. Within the legal literature, behavioral economic analysis has been relied upon to generate a significant number of proposals for paternalistic regulation. These proposals are ...

139 Engaging in risky sexual behaviors can be extremely costly when their physical, emotional, and financial consequences are taken into account. Apart from running the risk of becoming pregnant or getting their partner pregnant, individuals who engage in risky sexual behaviors also increase the likelihood of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. Therefore, increasing...

We point out the need for Behavioral Operational Research (BOR) in advancing the practice of OR. So far, in OR behavioral phenomena have been acknowledged only in behavioral decision theory but behavioral issues are always present when supporting human problem solving by modeling. Behavioral effects can relate to the group interaction and communication when facilitating with OR models as well a...

This paper extends individual-based theories of adaptive structuration by exploring the role of cognitive biases in shaping the individual sensemaking of a new technology (i.e., an online product configurator). We question whether cognitive biases intervene in the sensemaking process to influence the ensuing appropriation of the technology. We experimentally trigger cognitive biases by priming ...

objective: the pap smear is a reliable, inexpensive and effective screening test for cervical cancer; the second most common cancer among women worldwide. we aimed to determine women’s knowledge, attitudes and practice towards pap smear and barriers for the screening in a public hospital. materials and methods: this study, was carried out on 350  outpatient married women reffering for a visit a...

The market can provide commitment devices and other mechanisms to help people overcome these biases, but it can also exacerbate them. In general, the market will have weak or missing incentives for resolving these problems when borrowers are naïve about their biases or underestimate their lack of understanding. Moreover, organizations may deliberately misinform or underinform their customers ab...

due to Gelsemium noxious compounds if more selective compounds can be identified. Centesimal (C) dilutions of G. sempervirens (4C, 5C, 7C, 9C, and 30C) appeared able to change significantly mouse behavioral effects as assessed in the open-field (OF) and light–dark (LD) tests in blind and randomized fashion (Magnani et al., 2010) but effects in the elevated plus-maze, an assay considered to be i...

Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world’s knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow diversity of the Wikipedia editor community has the potential to introduce systemic biases such as gender biases into the content of Wikipedia. In this paper we a...