In this study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the neural and psychological bases of consumer herding decision in purchasing books online. Sixteen participants were asked to decide as quickly as possible whether to buy a book on the basis of its title keywords and the numbers of positive and negative reviews in stimulus. The given title keywords were very similar,...

This paper deals with definitional aspects of the herding attack of Kelsey and Kohno, and investigates the provable security of several hash functions against herding attacks. Firstly, we define the notion of chosen-target-forced-midfix (CTFM) as a generalization of the classical herding (chosen-target-forced-prefix) attack to the cases where the challenge message is not only a prefix but may a...

Culture of honor (COH) theory [Nisbett, R. E., & Cohen, D. (1996). Culture of honor: The psychology of violence in the south. Boulder, CO: Westview Press] predicts that the importance of upholding one’s reputation is cross-culturally variable: Revenge should be more prevalent in herding societies than in farming societies, and should be entirely absent in foraging societies. This study was desi...

Economists and financial analysts have begun to recognise the importance of the actions of other agents in the decision-making process. Herding is the deliberate mimicking of the decisions of other agents. Examples of mimicry range from the choice of restaurant, fashion and financial market participants, to academic research. Herding may conjure negative images of irrational agents sheepishly f...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of behavioral variables on overconfidence in management, herding behavior and investors' emotional tendency on stock return. To this end, by using the data of firms listed in the Iran's Stock Exchange during the seven-year period of 2010-2016, overconfidence index in management, the herding behavior of the investors and the emotional...

This paper combines the recent game theoretic approach of endogenous timing of entry to herding models with a macroeconomic model of investment cycles. The integrated description embodies the qualitative results of the myopic herding model in a medium run investment objective of smoothing the capital stock adjustment process. It features a completely disaggregated structure and bears the potent...

Rational herd is usually regarded to be difficult, if not impossible, to take place in an efficient financial market. In an extension of a sequential unit trading model, we find that large numbers of inferiorly informed traders who used not to trade could be induced to engage in herding when there are only a few uninformed traders adopting feedback strategies. We show conditions under which dif...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate symptoms and predicting factors of depression and anxiety among reindeer-herding Sami in Sweden. STUDY DESIGN A total of 319 reindeer-herding Sami (168 men, 151 women) were compared with urban and rural reference populations comprising 1,393 persons (662 men, 731 women). METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire study on mental health,...

This paper is concerned with robotic herding of a swarm of birds by another adversarial agent, referred to as the pursuer. The objective of herding is to prevent the birds from entering a specified volume of space, such as the air space around an airport. The n-Wavefront algorithm was introduced by the authors in a prior paper to enable herding of a swarm of birds using a robotic unmanned aeria...

Abstract Yak herding is one of the oldest market-based traditions, which part an integrated social-ecological system. But, it at risk extinction as yak herders are gradually shifting towards alternative occupations. The discontinuation may have several implications such loss culture and degradation rangeland ecosystem. Though not limited to financial aspect herding, this considered a main cause...