Background Pupillometry has been studied as a physiological marker for quantifying cognitive load since the early 1960s. It has been established that small changes in pupillary size can provide an index of the cognitive load of an individual as he/she performs a mental task. The utility of pupillometry as a measure of expertise is less well established, although recent research in the fields of...

This article is written in response to Kanwisher's Progressions article " The Quest for the FFA and Where It Led " (Kanwisher, 2017). I reflect on the extensive research program dedicated to the study of how and why perceptual expertise explains the many ways that faces are special, a research program that both predates and follows Kanwisher's 1997 landmark article where the fusiform face area ...

We study credit markets in which lenders can invest financial expertise to reduce the cost of acquiring information about underlying collateral. If pledgeability corporate income is low, acquisition increases lending, but because hold-up problem. By contrast, if high, reduces lending so that extract rents from firms by investing and creating fear acquisition. Optimal policy involves subsidizing...

O tema da pesquisa é a composição por sexo e cor nas carreiras universitárias seu impacto na estrutura as relações de poder configuração das profissões. A seguiu linha Sociologia Profissões, considerando que o objeto análise está centrado em grupos profissionais, uma importante referência identidade social, afirmando-se como área concentração estudos. teoria gênero ainda era pouco conhecida qua...