People differ in their willingness to take risks. Recent work found that revealed preference tasks (e.g., laboratory lotteries)—a dominant class of measures—are outperformed by survey-based stated preferences, which are more stable and predict real-wor
导言“新编跨文化交际英语教程·教师用书”主要是为使用“新编跨文化交际英语教程”教 师配套的教学指南。“新编跨文化交际英语教程”是在原有“跨文化交际英语教程”的基础上 经过全面、系统修订而成,我们对全书做了较大的更新和完善,调整和增补了许多材料,力 求使其更具时代性,更适合教学实际和学生需求。 为了进...
To understand the dynamics between the factors mentioned above and information disclosure, we conducted an online, between-subjects user experiment that involved 278 participants who were exposed to either a competitive task (i.e., instructed to convince the group to visit or skip a recommended ...
aThere are many references to how, in order to truly understand someone else, we must put ourselves 'in their shoes'. Shoes are personal things. Those that fit one person's feet might not fit someone else's. Then there's personal preference in terms of style. Ah, but that's not what...
A The typical way of talking to a baby - high-pitched, exaggerated and repetitious - is a source of fascination for linguists who hope to understand how 'baby talk' impacts on learning. Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play...
To understand what we mean by context, consider an operator supervising a machine that packages chocolate bars. The machine is subject to frequent faults and stoppages, which result from a complex interplay of different factors [2]. These factors are not restricted to the operator’s packaging ...
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To better understand the details of client interaction within OCS 2007, let's take a closer look at Office Communicator as a client endpoint. (Most of the signaling flows that relate to Office Communicator are identical to those used for other client endpoints such as Office Communicator Phone ...
However, we argue it is also important to understand states of enjoyment, as there are situations where a poor reader will enjoy reading. Indeed, in the neuroscience literature, the idea that states of high reward or motivation are linked to better learning is well established, with data ...