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    • Behavioral Correlates of Parasite Risk Among Humans, Primates, and Other Mammals: Social Contact, Exploratory Tendency, and the Foundations of Culture 

      McCabe, Collin M. (2017-05-13)
      Social learning and innovation are the behavioral processes that together create the emergent phenomenon of culture, which allows organisms to behaviorally adapt to and thrive in new environments. However, these processes ...
    • Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making Among the Poor 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Shafir, Eldar (American Marketing Association, 2006)
      This article considers several aspects of the economic decision making of the poor from the perspective of behavioral economics, and it focuses on potential contributions from marketing. Among other things, the authors ...
    • Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective 

      Chetty, Nadarajan (American Economic Association, 2015)
      The debate about behavioral economics – the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics – is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic ...
    • A Behavioral Economics View of Poverty 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Shafir, Eldar (American Economic Association, 2004)
    • Behavioral Household Finance 

      James J.Choi; Laibson, David; Brigitte C. Madrian; Beshears, John (Elsevier, 2018-09-27)
    • A Behavioral New Keynesian Model 

      Gabaix, Xavier (2016)
      This paper presents a framework for analyzing how bounded rationality affects monetary and fiscal policy. The model is a tractable and parsimonious enrichment of the widely-used New Keynesian model – with one main new ...
    • Behaviorally Relevant Abstract Object Identity Representation in the Human Parietal Cortex 

      Jeong, Su; Xu, Yaoda (Society for Neuroscience, 2016)
      The representation of object identity is fundamental to human vision. Using fMRI and multivoxel pattern analysis, here we report the representation of highly abstract object identity information in human parietal cortex. ...
    • The Behaviour of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Bisulfite Sequencing 

      Huang, Yun; Pastor, William Abraham; Shen, Yinghua; Tahiliani, Mamta V.; Liu, David Ruchien; Rao, Anjana; Liu, Jun (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Background: We recently showed that enzymes of the TET family convert 5-mC to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA. 5-hmC is present at high levels in embryonic stem cells and Purkinje neurons. The methylation status of ...
    • Behind the Seniors 

      Hackman, J. Richard; Wageman, Ruth; Nunes, Debra; Burruss, James (Personnel Publications Ltd, 2008)
      HR can give chief executives some invaluable prompts from the wings as they take to the stage with a new top team, Harvard researchers have found.
    • Being Surveyed Can Change Later Behavior and Related Parameter Estimates 

      Zwane, A. P.; Zinman, J.; Van Dusen, E.; Pariente, W.; Null, C.; Miguel, E.; Kremer, Michael R.; Karlan, D. S.; Hornbeck, Richard A.; Gine, X.; Duflo, E.; Devoto, F.; Crepon, B.; Banerjee, A. (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
      Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health and/or household finances ...
    • Being Unaccountable: Privacy, Self, and Society 

      Pressly, David Lowry (2020-10-19)
      It is surprising how hard it can be to explain what privacy is for. If pressed, most of us tend to describe what it does—it’s for keeping out of sight, say, or controlling personal information. It is not easy to put into ...
    • “Belarusians are kitties”: how а verbal meme became a national symbol 

      Rakityanskaya, Anna (University of Chicago Library, 2021)
      In the months that followed the Presidential election in Belarus, especially in August and September, we observed not only the contemporary history of the Belarusian protest of the second half of 2020, but also mythologization ...
    • Belief and Ameliorative Epistemology 

      McWilliams, Emily (2016-08-29)
      My dissertation is in three parts. In “Evidentialism and Belief Polarization,” I consider the epistemic import of a belief revision process known as belief polarization, in which exposure to a mixed batch of evidence ...
    • Belief Disagreements and Collateral Constraints 

      Simsek, Alp (Econometric Society, 2012-09-17)
      Belief disagreements have been suggested as a major contributing factor to the recent financial crisis. This paper theoretically evaluates this hypothesis. I assume that optimists have limited wealth and take on leverage ...
    • Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination 

      Fryer, Roland (Elsevier, 2007)
      The literature on statistical discrimination shows that ex-ante identical groups may be differentially treated in discriminatory equilibria. This paper constructs a dynamic model of statistical discrimination and explores ...
    • Belief Updating in Sequential Games of Two-Sided Incomplete Information: An Experimental Study of a Crisis Bargaining Model 

      Tingley, Dustin (Now Publishers, 2010-12-22)
      We investigate theoretically and experimentally the crisis bargaining model, a dynamic game of two-sided incomplete information with player types drawn from a commonly known distribution. Little work has been done to analyze ...
    • Beliefs and Decision-Making in Education 

      Nakajima, Nozomi (2022-06-06)
      This dissertation consists of three essays that examine beliefs and decision-making in education. The first essay examines how a short-term preschool subsidy in rural Indonesia affects parents' beliefs and investments in ...
    • Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape 

      Kustenbauder, Matthew (University of California Press, 2009)
      This article examines the Legio Maria Church of western Kenya, a relatively rare example of schism from the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. One of more than seven thousand African Initiated Churches in existence today, ...
    • Believing, Desiring, or Just Thinking About: Toward a Neuroscientific Account of Propositional Attitudes 

      Bernhard, Regan Marjorie (2017-05-12)
      Human minds can relate to a single idea in different ways. I can believe that Starbucks now sells donuts, but I can also hope or fear that Starbucks now sells donuts. Propositions, such as Starbucks now sells donuts are ...