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Transitive preference, i.e., if you prefer apples to bananas and bananas to cherries, you also prefer apples to cherries, is a basic property of some influential rational choice models. Contrary to this, Tversky, in his seminal 1969 article, presented evidence of intransitive preferences in two contexts, one of which involved choices between simple monetary lotteries....
As part of the United Nations Secretariat Executive Management Programme to which he contributes for the UN System Staff College, Alan Pearman recently took part in a series of virtual workshops on Communication and Executive Decision Making with United Nations staff from all over the world.
Yasmina Okan has been involved in a project looking at how reproductive issues affect womens' preferences for treatments for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is an incurable disease characterised by relapses (periods of function loss) followed by full or partial recovery, and potential permanent disability over time. Although treatments exist that can...
Together with colleagues from the University of Leeds Medical School and from the University of Manchester, Alan Pearman is one of a team of academics advising Airlines UK on testing-based alternatives to the Government’s current 14-day quarantine requirement for airline passengers arriving in the UK from countries deemed to be high risk in terms of...
This paper uses Item Response Theory to develop new financial literacy scales and shows that they predict key indictors of financial well-being. Here is the Abstract: Ranyard, R., McNair, S., Nicolini, G., & Duxbury, D. (2020). An item response theory approach to constructing and evaluating brief and in‐depth financial literacy scales. We applied Item Response...
Josh Weller's latest research paper sheds light on how the development of self-regulation links to decision making competence. Here is the Abstract: Developmental trajectory classes in psychological dysregulation predict later decision-making competence. Addictive Behaviors. Adolescence and emerging adulthood are developmental periods associated with increased risk taking, including increases in alcohol and substance use and antisocial behaviors....
Richard Hodgett and Sajid Siraj are delivering a free online event at Leeds Digital Festival on Tuesday 22nd September The big data and business analytics market size is expected to reach $512.04 billion by 2026 according to Allied Analytics LLP (2019). However, there are challenges ahead, including the enormous growth of data and capability to...
CDR welcomes Peter Ayton, who will be a new Director in CDR. Peter previously worked at City, University of London, where he also served as Head of the Psychology Department, Associate Dean for Research and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of California...
CDR welcomes Dr Joshua Weller, who joins us from Tilburg University (The Netherlands), where he served as an Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology. Josh received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2007.His research broadly focuses on how affective and cognitive processes contribute to decision-making and risk perceptions. More specifically, he studies...
Panos Stamolampros has a new paper investigating the informational value of online reviews posted by employees for their employer, a rather untapped source of online information from employees, using a sample of 349,550 reviews from 40,915 UK firms. We explore this novel form of electronic Word-of-Mouth (e-WOM) from different perspectives, namely: (i) its information content...