Earlier research reported that female undergradu ates performed significantly better than their male counterparts in medical school examinations. Such findings were partly explained by biases in admission policies with women (who formed only 25% of the student body) being higher achievers than men prior to entry to medical school. While some recent studies provide evidence of higher achievement...

Subjective beliefs and behavior regarding the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer were surveyed among economists attending the annual American Economic Association meeting. Logical inconsistency was measured in percentage deviations from a restriction imposed by Bayes’ Rule on pairs of conditional beliefs. Economists with inconsistent beliefs tended to be more accurate than...

This study attempts to analyze e-commerce adoption, proposing a global model that integrates the most relevant approaches in the literature. Gatignon and Robertson’s Adoption Model is taken as a reference framework because of its overall nature and its agreement with the main theories used to explain e-commerce acceptance. Thus, the model proposed to explain e-commerce adoption by consumers inc...

The study aims to investigate the factors that affect users’ intention to adopt mobile payment services. Drawing upon the Technology Acceptance Model, the study integrates use context and subjective norm to put forward a theoretical model. 375 valid survey responses were collected. The results show that use context is the strongest predictor of intention to adopt mobile payment services. It has...

To solve tasks concerning distances along a route, between locations which cannot be perceived from a single vantage point, people and other cognitive agents must generate inferred route distances. Inferred route distances, and inferred distances in general, are a special kind of subjective distances: Inferred distances cannot be retrieved from memory, but have to be inferred from several piece...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of the e-learning system (ELS) in mandatory and voluntary settings, through an extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Design/methodology/approach – Regression analysis was used to observe the associations of proposed constructs. Findings – The results of the study confirm the original TAM fi...

The Ellsberg experiments provide an intuitive illustration that the Savage approach, which reduces subjective uncertainty to risk, is not rich enough to capture many decision makers’preferences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that decision makers reduce uncertainty to compound risk. This work presents a theoretical model of decision making in which preferences are de…ned on both Savage s...

The potential market for m-commerce now consists of 2.5 billion users worldwide. In addition, as with more traditional computer-mediated environments, games are once again proving to be a dominant application. In particular, games are predicted to become the main driver in the m-commerce entertainment space. A key ingredient to the success of these wireless games is destined to be their quality...

Everyone involved in early childhood services needs to think about how program quality is defined--as either objective, or as subjective and value-based. Subjective accounts involve perspectives on the nature of quality which come from thinking persons, while objective accounts involve the nature of quality as it exists, independent of the way that it is being interpreted. Research-based object...