Sentences with phrase «from economic behavior»

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By varying the monkeys» budgets and the amounts of food they would receive for a disk, the researchers found that the monkeys» behavior was within 1 % of what could be predicted from economic theory.

Public assistance programs discourage individual and familial responsibility while simultaneously shielding self - destructive behavior from the sanction of economic consequences.

Nevertheless, it was on individual self - interested rationality that his economic theory was based, and the result was increasingly to liberate behavior based on this rationality from community restrictions.

From the perspective of the Chicago school, there is no behavior that is not interpretable as economic, however altruistic, emotional, disinterested and compassionate it may seem to others...

On the contrary, he said, «To judge from the behavior and the achievements of the wealthy classes today in any quarter of the world, the outlook is very depressing» and he added: «If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose... must we not expect a nervous breakdown?»

Yet for some reason we are convinced at the moment that the ways of our economy should be identical with the laws of the market, and therefore we depart resolutely from norms and customs that controlled economic behavior through our long history of increasing prosperity.

Previous research from around the world suggests that during times of economic and regulatory pressures suicide - related behavior rates often increase.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

Neuroeconomics, the parent discipline that explores links between the brain and economic behavior, seemed poised to make a triumphant leap from academe to Madison Avenue.

New sociological evidence from a a small fishing village in Baja California, Mexico suggests that the creation of marine protected areas, which influence who gets to fish and how much of species they can take, generates both extreme pro-social and anti-social behaviors among fishers, a finding that differs from previous economic and psychology studies.

The research team combined data on state - level economic well - being provided by the Gallup Poll with data on hundreds of customers of aFortune1000 international airline carrier, including their purchase behavior and perceptions of the firm collected from multiple surveys conducted over time.

«Despite the well - documented benefits of proactive behavior, the question of how to promote employee proactivity in the workplace is relatively under - explored,» says one of the study's authors, Dr Yungui Guo from China's Zhoukou Normal University, School of Economic and Management.

«Recent lab experiments studying behavior of a group of individuals show that economic systems may deviate significantly from rational efficient equilibrium at both individual and aggregate levels.

This course will survey current understanding of the social behavior and decision making of humans and other animals, from psychological, economic, and ethological perspective; the neurobiology of friendship, social connection, and cooperation; the neurobiology of theory of mind and strategic behavior; disorders affecting social decision making and their biological basis; and applications of social neuroscience to business, including marketing, management and organizational design, leadership and team - building, negotiation, and trading.

We use novel survey data from San Francisco to identify the patterns and prevalence of economic anxiety among teachers and how this anxiety relates to teachers» attitudes and behaviors.

The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth - century Soviet socialism.

Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens exist on the brink of poverty, and from that profound economic inequality stems self - destructive behavior.

10) The difference between an investor and a gambler is that an investor bears risk existing in the economic system in order to earn a return, whereas the gambler adds risk to the economic system that would not have existed, aside from his behavior.

Academic research has sought to provide explanations for this anomalous behavior (meaning that it's irrational from an economic perspective).

From an economic standpoint, looser credit is an example of the kind of risk - taking behavior by financial institutions that can lead to a crash if it goes too far.

She graduated from Oral Roberts University where she studied macroeconomics and economic behaviors.

Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.

If America changes its behavior and puts up with the economic ramifications that will happen from changing that behavior in the short term, the rest of the world has to engage in it with us.»

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

About 70 % of people — the non-free-riders — right now pay taxes to support the consumption of 30 % of people — two thirds of whom gain nothing from their excess consumption, but purely waste it and wouldn't notice the difference in satisfaction if they switched to non-wasteful economic behaviors.

Changes in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion are influenced by many long - term and short - term factors, including population growth, economic growth, changing energy prices, new technologies, changing behavior, and seasonal temperatures.

Gabriel Byberg has worked with several economists in both academic and corporate settings on projects ranging from applied research in the field of renewable resource integration to the development of economic models depicting business - development behavior in service firms.

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life - Changing Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich A personal finance guide and an introduction to a new psychological field, this revised edition of the 1999 classic brings updated research and new insights into behavior during a rough economic downturn.

A brand strategist by profession, I am passionate about stocks for in my reading of them I have learnt a lot on subjects ranging from big picture investing, social behavior, competitive strengths and sustainability, temperament, management quality, socio economic risks etc..

Table 2 compares the Early Start and control groups on a series of measures of parent behavior and family circumstances, including maternal depression, substance use, family violence, economic circumstances, and adverse life events assessed over the period from 5 to 9 years.

Children from lower socio - economic status (SES) families are particularly at risk of exhibiting disruptive behaviors during the preschool years and therefore to experience stressful CCS experiences.