Abstract Nature and species conservation often conflict with intensive natural resource or land use. Many protected areas are too small for long-term of viable vertebrate populations, especially in Madagascar, forests subject to exploitation a variety resources. Trying exclude people from the use these resources has not been successful during economic, natural, political crises when human popul...

Events in a sequence may each be evaluated as good or bad. We propose that such good-bad evaluations evoke emotional responses that change current mood. A model of recurrent updating of current mood is developed and compared to a model of how a sequence of events evoking emotional responses is evaluated retrospectively. In Experiment 1, 149 undergraduates are presented sequences of lottery outc...

We study the welfare properties of majority and supermajority rules when voting is voluntary and costly. Voters in the model have private values with differing preference intensities and voting costs. Our model is non-parametric– with only weak assumptions on the distribution of the number of eligible voters, preferences and costs. We show that, in large elections, majority rule is utilitarian ...

Although supporters of vegetarianism (and animals' interests in general) come in many varieties, we may distinguish two groups. First, utilitarians such as Singer base their argument on the suffering that factory farming causes to nonhumans and the absence of comparable benefits to humans. l Second, the animal rights view, as expressed by Regan, extends Kant's respect for persons principle to i...

This study aims to explore how digital assets can be used as a stimulus create cognitive and affective response in two-level stages through consumer experience journey theory. 21 semi-structured interviews were conducted identify two psychological states: utilitarian (as response) hedonistic an response). The results show that several categories of information (location, place condition, touris...