Background. User´s satisfaction is an important tool to evaluate the performance of healthcare services. Measures of satisfaction are important tools for research, administration and planning. Objectives. (i) Study patient satisfaction as a multidimensional concept including organizational...

This paper aims to contribute further research on the conceptualization of individual financial satisfaction as a particular domain of satisfaction with life as a whole. Based on the 2003 Survey on Living Conditions and Poverty for Andalucía (Spain) and using a self-reported measure of welfare,...

The present paper reports on a political choice experiment with elected real-world politicians. A questionnaire on political and public issues is taken to examine whether prospect theory predicts the responses of experts from the field better than rational choice theory. The results indicate...

The present paper addresses the question how ethnocentrism operates on the local level in two distinct European border cities, how representations of the 'Other' are formed and transformed, and how they structure perceptions of the Self and of everyday life. More specifically, the author...

In this paper we obtain the value that experimental subjects attach to a prisoners’ dilemma game by applying a related procedure to BDM (1964). We also obtain the value of a closely related game which does not incorporate any social dilemma. By comparing both values, we are able to classify...

The aim of this investigation is to show how the use of classroom experiments may be a good pedagogical tool to teach the Nash equilibrium (NE) concept. For our purposes, the basic game is a repeated version of the Beauty Contest Game (BCG), a simple guessing game in which repetition lets...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between satisfaction with waiting times in the Public Primary Health Care Service in Andalucía and a host of individual variables as well as market determinants. Since waiting time is imposing an opportunity cost on individuals, we...

Using a step-level public good game, we analyze the e.ects on contributions of having played under a sanctioning regime. We find that "educational" effects, in terms of learning a particular way to coordinate towards "good" equilibria, are more relevant than motivational "crowding out" effects,...

Research on Subjective Well-Being (SWB) recognizes the important role of individual Leisure Satisfaction - measured by responses to a stated leisure experience valuation question - as a mediator of individual Happiness. Leisure is a complex human need, where "non-working time" is not the only...

This paper introduces some new features in the standard experimental design of the beauty contest in order to allow communication among participants. With that aim, we use the mode instead of the mean and non-rival payoffs. This design encourages students to communicate their guessed number,...