0749-5978/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.07.002 ⇑ Fax: +1 510 643 0621. E-mail address: [email protected] People exhibit excessive confidence in visually-based estimates, which in turn biases decision making. Three experiments support this assertion. Experiment 1 shows a strong impact of presentation format on estimation of proportions. Experiment 2 sh...

It is commonplace for organisations to collect personal information to be processed and stored on their systems. Until recently, there was no comprehensive legislation that addressed the ‘processing’ of personal information by organisations in South Africa. The Protection of Personal Information Bill (“POPI”) was signed into law in November 2013 and is expected to come into effect, later this y...

0749-5978/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.03.003 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Suls). In six experiments, we tested four explanations for the better/worse-than-average effect (B/WTA) bymanipulating the number of items comprising the target or referent of direct comparison. A single-item target tended to be rated more extremely ...

We examine logical systems with generalized quantifiers, for expressing and reasoning about assertions with 'generally'. The primary motivation is a qualitative, rather than quantitative, approach to some vague notions. Assertions and arguments involving notions, such as 'generally', 'most', 'many', etc., occur often in ordinary language and in some branches of science. Filters can be used for ...