Recently, mobile applications have offered users the option to share their location information with friends. Using data from a major location-based social networking application in China (a Foursquare-like application), we estimate a structural model of restaurant discovery and observational learning. The unique feature of repeated customer visits in the data allows us to examine observational...

Individuals can learn by interacting with the environment and experiencing a difference between predicted and obtained outcomes (prediction error). However, many species also learn by observing the actions and outcomes of others. In contrast to individual learning, observational learning cannot be based on directly experienced outcome prediction errors. Accordingly, the behavioral and neural me...

This research validated and extended the Movement Imagery Questionnaire- Revised (MIQ-R; Hall & Martin, 1997). Study 1 (N = 400) examined the MIQ-R's factor structure via multitrait-multimethod confirmatory factor analysis. The questionnaire was then modified in Study 2 (N = 370) to separately assess the ease of imaging external visual imagery and internal visual imagery, as well as kinesthetic...

In many areas, practitioners seek to use observational data learn a treatment assignment policy that satisfies application‐specific constraints, such as budget, fairness, simplicity, or other functional form constraints. For example, policies may be restricted take the of decision trees based on limited set easily observable individual characteristics. We propose new approach this problem motiv...