Search Results - subject:"INFORMATION processing"

Financial Disclosure and Market Transparency with Costly Information Processing

Di Maggio, Marco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have … superior information-processing ability and trade purely to exploit it. The disclosure of financial information induces a trade …

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How to investigate the information processing strategies of students in competence-based pre-vocational secondary education: selection of the right instrument

Koopman, Maaike; Teune, Peter; Beijaard, Douwe - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 46 (2012) 6, pp. 1931-1946

-based education. These learning environments are expected to elicit the use of deep information processing strategies and to … particular types of information processing strategies in other educational contexts, these instruments cannot simply be adopted … surface information processing strategies in competence-based Pre-Vocational Secondary Education. The utility of a semi …

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The attraction effect is more pronounced for consumers who rely on intuitive reasoning

Mao, Wen; Oppewal, Harmen - In: Marketing Letters 23 (2012) 1, pp. 339-351

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When hedonic products help regulate my mood

López, Inés López; Maya, Salvador Ruiz de - In: Marketing Letters 23 (2012) 3, pp. 701-717

This paper analyzes how affect mechanisms work when consumers form their attitude toward and intention to purchase a hedonic product. The first of two studies shows that when products have the potential to improve moods, affect regulation dominates affective evaluation in forming purchase...

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An unlucky feeling: Overconfidence and noisy feedback

Grossman, Zachary; Owens, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 510-524

How do individuals’ beliefs respond to ego-relevant information? After receiving noisy, but unbiased performance feedback, participants in an experiment overestimate their own scores on a quiz and believe their feedback to be ‘unlucky’, estimating that it under-represents their score by...

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Deconstruction and reconstruction of an anomaly

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - In: Games and Economic Behavior 76 (2012) 2, pp. 678-689

is an information processing deficiency rather than egocentricity. Moreover, we discuss the potential relevance of our …

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L’influence du format de l’étiquetage sur l’utilisation et la compréhension de l’information nutritionnelle : résultats d’une expérimentation menée en restauration collective

Gomez, Pierrick; Le Minous, Anne-Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

Background Nutrition labeling usually describes food product composition in terms of nutrients. This article aims at investigating the influence of nutrition labeling on use and understanding of nutrition information in workplace restaurants and comparing the difference between a nutrient-based...

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From perception to action: An economic model of brain processes

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D. - In: Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012) 1, pp. 81-103

We build on research from neurobiology to model the process through which the brain maps outside evidence into decisions. The sensory system encodes information through cell-firing. Cell-firing is measured against a threshold, and an action is triggered depending on whether the threshold is...

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Learning orientation in export functions: impact on export growth

Souchon, Anne L.; Sy‐Changco, Joseph A.; Dewsnap, Belinda - In: International Marketing Review 29 (2012) 2, pp. 175-202

the organizational learning literature focuses on the information‐processing behaviors of firms (e.g. acquisition … memory. Practical implications – High levels of (human and financial) investment in export information processing are … from a holistic (both information processing‐ and discipline‐based) perspective. …

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A model of political information-processing and learning cooperation in the repeated Prisonerâ€™s Dilemma

Kim, Sung-youn - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 24 (2012) 1, pp. 46-65

A model of political information processing drawn from the studies of political behavior and psychology is applied to …

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