This paper tests whether changes in “incidental emotions” lead to changes in economic choices. Incidental emotions are experienced at the time of an economic decision but are not part of the payoff from a particular choice. As such, the standard economic model predicts that incidental emotions should not affect behavior, yet many papers in the behavioral science and psychology literatures find ...

Concerns about the high costs of cancer care have led to a renewed interest in understanding how patients value the outcomes of care. Psychologists, economists, and others have highlighted some of the ways in which patients and caregivers perceive and make treatment decisions. Prospect theory is the predominant framework for understanding decisions made in situations where the outcomes of each ...

By the time children begin formal schooling, their experiences at home have already contributed to large variations in their math and language development, and once school begins, academic achievement continues to depend strongly on influences outside of school. It is thus essential that educational reform strategies involve primary caregivers. Specifically, programs and policies should promote...

A number of recent research works tried to apply fractal methods to psychological or behavioral variables. Quite often, nevertheless, the use of fractal analyses remains rudimentary, and the goal of researchers seems limited to evidencing the presence of longrange correlation in data sets. This article presents some recent developments in monofractals theory, and some related methodological ref...

On behalf of the Editorial Board and the editorial management staff of MDPI, it is my great pleasure to introduce this new journal Behavioral Sciences. Behavioral Sciences seeks to publish original research and scholarship contributing to our understanding of human behavior. The journal will provide a forum for work that furthers knowledge and stimulates research in the behavioral sciences. We ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to offer aspects of a conceptual model that can be applied as an organizational instrument for aiding preclinical and clinical chiropractic students to develop a thorough understanding of their roles among the next generation of health care providers for the 21st century. DISCUSSION It is necessary for chiropractic physicians to comprehend the basis of...

One might question whether the great works in the history of science would get good reviews if subjected to the type of reviewing process to which psychologists are forced to submit their manuscripts. In some ways, behavioral scientists are too critical, and in other ways they are insufficiently so. To explore these issues, we imagine that great works from the history of nonsocial sciences were...

Using longitudinal data from the UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) and Your First College Year (YFCY) surveys, this study examines predictors of the likelihood that science-oriented students would participate in a health science undergraduate research program during the first year of college. The key predictors of participation in health science research programs are studen...

Nonparametric correlation measures at the Kendall and Spearman correlation are widely used in the behavioral sciences. These measures are often said to be robust, in the sense of being resistant to outlying observations. In this note we formally study their robustness by means of their influence functions. Since robustness of an estimator often comes at the price of a loss in precision, we comp...

INTRODUCTION Most behavioral scientists are well aware of computer technology as a means of reducing and otherwise analyzing empirically derived data. A small number have also discovered, and enthusiastically endorsed, the computer's potential for simulation of analytic models. But little has been made of yet another application of computer technology in the behavioral sciences, namely, the use...