Children’s social information processing (SIP) encompasses cognitive and behavioral sequence that underlies social responses. SIP in peer interactions is well studied. Less is known about SIP in mother-child interchanges. Youth who show one SIP pattern a hostile attribution of intent (HAI) bias—in peer interactions consistently exhibit externalizing symptoms. This relationship is less consisten...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about cervical cancer (CC) risk factors and benefits of CC prevention motivates women to participate in its screening. However, several studies show that there is a significant knowledge deficit worldwide about human papillomavirus (HPV). The current study explores the level of knowledge about HPV and CC prevention in the context of sociodemographic and behavioral character...

The visual system is able to extract an enormous amount of socially relevant information from the face, including social categories, personality traits, and emotion. While facial features may be directly tied to certain perceptions, emerging research suggests that top-down social cognitive factors (e.g., stereotypes, social-conceptual knowledge, prejudice) considerably influence and shape the p...

Although research exists in areas of decision support, behavioral ethics, as well as personal differences and decision making, little is understood about the processes at work at the intersection of these areas. We believe that such research will support developing decision support systems for ethics (DSSE). We lay part of the foundation to support the development of next generation DSS that fi...

Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental economic games. According to the taste-based discrimination model developed by economists, attractiveness-related financial and prosocial biases are the result of preferences or prejudices similar to those displayed...

We investigate temporal decisions to participate in exercise in a dynamic model featuring present bias and habit formation. The model highlights naivete about present bias and projection bias about habit formation/decay and implies that promoting participation in physical activity must both encourage the inactive to start and discourage the active from quitting as behavioral biases apply to bot...

Assessing the predictive ability of behavioral finance theories using out-of-sample data is important. The potentially boundless set of psychological biases underlying the behavioral explanations for observed security price behavior risk over-fitting theory to data. We test pricing effects attributed to a central psychological bias, representativeness, which underlies many behavioral-finance th...

study of international affairs by incorporating Behavioral concepts and factors into IR research (Mintz 2005a). Six characteristics of Behavioral IR were introduced as well as relevant concepts, units of analysis, methods, and potential research questions. Behavioral IR is concerned with how cognitive limitations, psychological factors, and susceptibility to biases affect IR. The goal of Behavi...

by the progress of knowledge and technology and reaching equipments for the comfort in life, psychology has gone too far in knowledge by carrying out extensive research. psychologists, for having a better life, emphasize on learning life skills. these skills being international are rooted in islam and are atated by modern words. one of these skills is to control the anger or excitement. the wri...