Violations of monotonicity and contextual effects in choice-based certainty equivalents

Article Abstract:

Risks with better outcomes are preferred under identical circumstances. Violations of this theory of monotonicity have been demonstrated by studies using judgment of values. A study was conducted to test whether the same results would be yielded using subjects' choices instead of judgments. The effect of varying amounts of distributions on certainty equivalents was also tested. Results indicated that using the method of choice also led to violations. The significance of context was also confirmed.

Decision-making, Decision making, Choice (Psychology)

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Testing a hierarchical model of self-knowledge

Article Abstract:

Testing of a hierarchical model of self-knowledge indicates that subjects retrieve abstract information while describing their personality attributes, independent of context. However, subjects retrieve contextual behavioral events while describing themselves in specific context. Hierarchical model suggests that people simultaneously hold multiple representation of themselves, differing in their context specificity and in the type of knowledge content.

Models, Self-perception, Self-knowledge, Theory of, Self knowledge, Self perception

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The contingency of perceptual processsing: context modifies equal-loudness relations

Article Abstract:

A more direct method of studying the effect of context on acoustic perception is designed using a new paradigm called 'matching in scaling.' Results show that context has a significant effect on loudness perception both when judging a single tone and when comparing two tones. The same findings were reached in an experiment where no numerical judgments were involved. All these suggest that the said process is largely contextual in nature.

Auditory perception

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