We can think of no question more fundamental to experimental economics than understanding whether, and under what circumstances, laboratory results generalize to naturally occurring environments. In this paper, we extend Levitt and List (2006) to the class of games in which financial payoffs and ‘doing the right thing’ are not necessarily in conflict. We argue that behaviour is crucially linked...

fateme derakhshan-panah was born in hamedan (iran) in 1987. she received her b.s. in pure chemistry (2009) and m.s. in organic chemistry (2011) from bu-ali sina university, iran. she is currently working towards her ph.d. under the supervision of professor m. a. zolfigol. her research interest is organic methodology especially the application of solid acids and ionic liquids in organic synthesis.

The first author, Elisa Gabrielli, has been a distance runner for many years, and then at a particular point in her career, she decided to move over to the 3000-m steeplechase. She was attracted by this discipline as she believed that it would be the appropriate discipline for her, due to the challenge it provided her, and the necessary knowledge and awareness she had through her studies. For r...

in a sociological review of novels, the connection between structure and content of the story studied by considering the conditions and changes in society and environment in which they are created, and the modality of artistic reflection of the society in the world of the literary work is reviewed and analyzed. in this article, the authors present an analysis of the works of the famous algerian...

We consider a two-player game in which the first player (the Guesser) tries to guess, edgeby-edge, the path that second player (the Chooser) takes through a directed graph. At each step, the Guesser makes a wager as to the correctness of her guess, and receives a payoff proportional to her wager if she is correct. We derive optimal strategies for both players for various classes of graphs, and ...

this report presents a 52-year-old woman who was admitted to nephrology ward with hypernatremia. she shared a persecutory delusion of poisoning with her 22-year-old daughter and did not feed her 8-year-old son due to her delusion. keywords: shared paranoid disorder, delusions, schizophrenia, paranoid.

After hearing the punch line of the joke, the teenager falls to the floor, almost as if actually punched. She remains there, completely unable to move. She hears her parents reassure her friends that they need not worry about her because she will be all right in a few minutes. She is embarrassed and frustrated as the episode continues, and her friends begin to leave. They bid her goodbye, but s...

CASE Erica, 20 months old, is brought to the office of her pediatrician by her mother who is concerned about the possibility of sexual abuse. She describes her daughter’s behavior as unusual during the past 2 weeks. At first, she thought Erica was experiencing abdominal pain when she pointed to her abdomen. Gradually, it became apparent that she was pointing to her vagina with the utterance “oo...

A patient of mine, Joan, a physician in her late 40s, had been diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. I’ll never forget our first visit. As I took her history, inquired about her life, work, and family, and conducted a physical exam, I was amazed by her detachment from her diagnosis, her emotions, and her body. For Joan, breast cancer was an unpleasant bump in the road, an irritating diversion f...

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...