Trust is often described as an important variable in social interactions, allowing exchanges and potentially influencing economic performance. In the last decades, the understanding of trust antecedents and consequences has deepened. While trust has often been defined as an expectation about a counterpart’s trustworthiness in a situation involving risk, experimental studies point to the social ...

My research seeks to answer the question of how any agent that is tasked with making sense of its world, by finding explanations for evidence (e.g., sensor reports) using domain-general strategies, may accurately and efficiently handle incomplete evidence, noisy evidence, and an incomplete knowledge base. I propose the following answer to the question. The agent should employ an optimal abducti...

objective: the aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship between metacognition and obsessive beliefs, and procrastination. methods: 285 students of tabriz and mohaghegh ardabili universities, iran, were selected by random sampling, and completed the metacognition (mcq-30) questionnaire, obsessive beliefs questionnaire (obq-44), and general procrastination scale. the research m...

One can gain efficiency in an inference system by using special-purpose representations for reasoning about certain predicates, but some such representations make it impossible for the system to keep track of the reasons for which it holds each of its beliefs. We illustrate the potential conflict with some examples, and distill some general principles for designing representations that can supp...

A dynamic model with learning and adaptation captures the evolution in trader beliefs and trading strategies. Through a process of learning and observation, traders improve their understanding of the market. Traders also engage in a process of adaptation by switching between trading strategies based on past performance. The asymptotic properties are derived analytically, demonstrating that conv...

The recent financial crisis has shown that financial frictions such as asset bubbles and liquidity spirals have important consequences not only for the financial sector, but also more generally for the macro economy. It forces economists to reevaluate firmly held beliefs about market efficiency, as well as convictions about the appropriate regulation of financial markets and approaches to macro...

Öğretmenler toplumların istediği nitelikli insan gücüne sahip olmada, bireylerin toplumsal yaşama uyum sağlamasında, toplumun sosyal ve teknolojik bir takım değişimlere sağlamasında önemli görevler üstlenmektedir. TALIS (Teaching and Learning International Survey)-Uluslararası öğrenme öğretim anketi öğretmenlerle ilgili uluslararası düzeyde yürütülen araştırmalardan biridir. Bu araştırmanın ama...