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Housing loans: what about personality traits?
No full textTo investigate the role of personality traits (16PF model) on psychological attitudes about mortgage behaviour, 263 participants were asked their preferences and perceptions about housing loans. Results showed that: Extraversion positively predicted the preference for housing loans with adjustable rates, but also the tendency to change this preference; anxiety negatively predicted the preference for having housing loans, preferring fixed-rate mortgages, and the perception of high risks and low levels of predictability; tough-mindedness was positively associated with a preference for fixedrate mortgage (maintaining this preference over time), and with the perception over adjustable-rate mortgages of low risks and low predictability; independence negatively predicted the preference for adjustable-rate mortgages. These findings fit with a growing body of evidence suggesting that individual differences influence perceptions and preferences about mortgages
Nudge and individual characteristics in decision-making
No full textPeople often tend to make inefficient decisions for the community well-being (e.g they do not invest money, they overuse medical screening or do not engage in politics) due to their individual differences, such as level of avoidance or anxiety. In recent years, Governments has successfully applied strategies, called “nudges”, to help people maximizing their decisions in economic and health areas, however the role of individual characteristics has not explored. The present study investigated whether Nudges, in particular default ones in which people were assigned to one program by Institution, can modulate the influence of such individual differences, promoting favourable decisions. 97 participants completed the Trait Anxiety Inventory, the General Decision Making Styles and scenarios about economic, health and civic domains. Participants have been enrolled (opt-out) or not enrolled (opt-in) in specific plans and had to decide whether to accept or change their condition. Result showed that opt-out condition drives people high in anxiety and avoidance to invest more and to be more engaged in politics, whereas in health field it helps those low in anxiety to be more prone to undergo medical screening. Nudge confirms its effectiveness in favoring better decisions among people according to their individual differences
Solving Mathematical puzzles: the viewpoints of Artificial Intelligence and Psychological Cognitive Science
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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