Insincere Promises advances an economic theory of the law of misrepresented intent. Ian Ayres and Gregory Klass argue that penalizing promisors who misrepresent the objective probability of their performance helps to induce efficient reliance on promises by promisees. The authors develop a reformed version of the doctrine aimed at inducing optimal reliance with minimal transaction cost. In this...

The first part of this paper examines the practice of informed treatment decisions in the protective medical system in China today. The second part examines how health care professionals in China perceive and carry out their responsibilities when relaying information to vulnerable patients, based on the findings of an empirical study that I had undertaken to examine the moral experience of nurs...

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational complexity of false-name manipulation in weighted voting games which are an important class of coalitional voting games. Weighted voting games have received increased interest in the multiagent community due to their compac...

Abstract Studies investigating the effects of aging on nonliteral language processing have mainly focused one sensory modality, for example written vignettes. In current study, we used a video-based task to examine effect healthy social communication perception using novel database called RISC (Relation Inference in Social Communication). By means an online recruitment platform, asked young, mi...

We investigated whether the use of hate speech by politicians impacts social evaluation their image, as measured semantic differential method developed Cwalina et al. (2000). The participants (N = 105, Polish nationals) evaluated profiles three well-known from different parties – Krzysztof Bosak, Radosław Sikorski, and Włodzimierz Czarzasty a fictional politician named Jacek Wiśniewski. Partici...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate musculoskeletal symptom prevalence in university hospital nurses and explore the relation between musculoskeletal symptom prevalence and work related factors. METHODS A structured questionnaire was conducted with 620 nurses in a university hospital to look into the characters of responsibility and musculoskeletal symptom prevalence. The ...

Endriss et al. [1,2] initiated the complexity-theoretic study of problems related to judgment aggregation. We extend their results for manipulating two specific judgment aggregation procedures to a whole class of such procedures, and we obtain stronger results by considering not only the classical complexity (NP-hardness) but the parameterized complexity (W[2]-hardness) of these problems with r...

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere behaviour. Manipulative behaviour has received increased attention since the famous Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem. We examine the computational complexity of manipulation in weighted voting games which are ubiquitous mathematical models used in economics, political science, neuro...

This paper presents experiments analyzing the strategic behavior of voters under three voting systems: plurality rule, approval voting, and the Borda count. Strategic behavior is significantly different under each treatment (voting system). Plurality rule leads voters to play in a more sophisticated manner, but not necessarily insincerely, displaying the lowest levels of manipulation. The oppos...

We consider a game in which schools compete to place graduates in two distinct ways: by investing in the quality of education, and by strategically designing grading policies. In equilibrium, schools issue grades that do not perfectly reveal graduate abilities. This leads evaluators to have less-accurate information when hiring or admitting graduates. However, compared to fully-revealing gradin...