In this study, we enrich a standard principal–agent model with hidden action by introducing salience-biased perception on the agent’s side. The misguided focus salient payoffs, which leads and principal’s probability assessments to diverge, has two effects: First, agent focuses too much obtaining bonus, facilitates incentive provision. Second, principal may exploit diverging relax participation...

Abstract This paper provides a simple model of identity salience that is applied to the phenomenon recent rise in right-wing populism Western world. Trade and capital flows, skill-biased technological change, migration have led declining employment wages these economies parallel economic cultural populism, tapping into nativist sentiments. We argue when long-term income stagnation for most popu...

Three experiments investigated whether linguistic and/or attentional constraints might account for preschoolers' difficulties when learning color terms. Task structure and demands were equated across experiments, and both speed and degree of learning were compared. In Experiment 1, 3-year-olds who were matched on vocabulary score were taught new secondary color terms by corrective, semantic, or...

The purpose of this study was to assess the construct validity of adolescent-report parenting behavior measures (primarily derived from the Parental Behavior Measure) in a sample of 480 adolescents from Beijing, China. Results suggest that maternal support, monitoring, and autonomy granting were valid measures when assessing maternal socialization strategies and Chinese adolescent development. ...

Focusing on different treatments of the same nonfictional entity, Huntington’s disease, in two global fictions, Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) and Lisa Genova’s Inside O’Briens (2015), this paper seeks to understand affective, ethical, aesthetic dimensions crucial problematic moments each. It deploys concepts status (fictional, nonfictional, or a blurring two), function (how does particular eleme...

The salience of popout targets was measured in regular line arrays as a function of texture density. Test targets (singletons with orientation, motion, or luminance contrast) presented at different raster widths were compared with reference lines (lines brighter than surrounding lines) presented at fixed raster width. The luminance at which the reference target appeared as salient as the partic...

INTRODUCTION Early adverse life events (EALs) increase the risk for chronic medical and psychiatric disorders by altering early neurodevelopment. The aim of this study was to examine associations between EALs and network properties of core brain regions in the emotion regulation and salience networks, and to test the influence of sex on these associations. METHODS Resting-state functional and...