Individuals perform mate retention behaviors to minimize the risk of partner infidelity and relationship dissolution. The current study investigates whether consideration of cosmetic surgery can be conceptualized as part of a broader strategy of mate retention for women, but not men. We hypothesized that women's consideration of cosmetic surgery would be positively associated with performance f...

ing for the moment from any cost attached to learning or not learning the true ability, it is easy to see from (3) that F $ 0 if and only if

Developing a sense of agency as a learner is at the heart of Self-Regulated Learning (SLR). If students in mathematics are going to become self-regulated learners they need to be confronted with opportunities that allow them to reveal their thinking and to observe and emulate the thinking of others. In what follows we begin by introducing SRL and exploring its connection with mathematics educat...

As argued by Werner DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler (1995): “Perhaps the most robust finding in the psychology of judgment is that people are overconfident.” This paper surveys part of the vast empirical and experimental literature on overconfidence. We find broad evidence that many subjects underestimate their health and driving risk, and that this often results in underinvestment in precautions...

Volitional behaviors can be construed as “work” (extrinsically motivated) or as “fun” (intrinsically motivated). When volitional behaviors are construed as an obligation to work, completing the behavior depletes a consumer, and subsequent self-control becomes more difficult. When volitional behaviors are construed as an opportunity to have fun, completing the behavior vitalizes a consumer, and ...

Active commuting (AC) to school represents a great opportunity to incorporate walking or cycling into adolescents' everyday routine. The objective of the study was to describe changes in AC in Czech adolescents across a 10-year period in different built environments. Data from the 2001 and 2011 Czech Census of Population and Housing were used to examine the mode of transportation taken to schoo...