David Sloan Wilson (2015) argues forcefully that altruism exists in humans and that the biological mechanism of “group selection” is responsible. Indeed, Wilson argues that altruism and group selection are pervasive and important across non-human species too, contrary to the orthodox view in biology. This review focusses on the implications of Wilson’s argument for humans and for economics, in ...

Conventional models of single district plurality elections show that with three parties anything can happen extreme policies can win regardless of voter preferences. I show that when there are multiple district elections for a legislature we get back to a world where the median voter matters: an extreme policy will generally only come about if it is preferred by the median voter in a majority o...

We consider a multilateral bargaining game in which the agents can be classified into two groups according to their instantaneous preferences. In one of these groups there is one agent with a different discount factor. We analyze how this time-preference heterogeneity may generate multiplicity of equilibria. When such an agent is sufficiently more patient than the rest, there is an equilibrium ...

This paper provides an exploratory study on the relationship between learning preferences of systems engineering graduate students and delivery methods of systems engineering coursework. We begin by providing an overview of learning in the systems engineering context, followed by two central research questions that guide the rest of the paper. Our study is focused on measuring learning preferen...

Birdsong is a sexually selected signal that is learned early in life. Song learning (imitative vocal learning) by male songbirds has been extensively studied, but other aspects of development are important in birdsong as well. Female experience with song can affect song preferences in some species but not in others. The neural responses to song in females, as assessed by immediate-early gene ex...

Traditional lane-changing (LC) behavioral researches usually focus on the driver’s cognitive performance which includes the driver’s psychological and behavioral habit characteristics, rarely involving the affection of expert driver’s comprehensive behavioral preferences, such as: safety and comfort performance in LC process. Towards the free LC process, a novel LC safety and comfort degree ind...

The aim of this study was to investigate the learning style preferences of a group of first-year dental students and their relation to gender and past academic performance. A total of 113 first-year dental students (forty-two female, seventy-one male) at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, participated. The Visual, Aural, Read-write, and Kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire was used to de...

Birdsong is a sexually selected signal that is learned early in life. Song learning (imitative vocal learning) by male songbirds has been extensively studied, but other aspects of development are important in birdsong as well. Female experience with song can affect song preferences in some species but not in others. The neural responses to song in females, as assessed by immediate-early gene ex...

conclusions according to the results, male students preferred to use the kinesthetic learning style more than females, while, female students preferred the aural learning style. knowledge about the learning styles of students at educational institutes is valuable and helps solve learning problems among students, and allows students to become better learners. results out of 184 participants who ...

Each learner has different preferences and needs. Therefore, it is very crucial to provide the different styles of learners with different learning environments that are more preferred and more efficient to them. This paper reports a study of the intelligent learning environment where the learner’s preferences are diagnosed, and then user interfaces are customized in an adaptive manner to accom...