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Doing It Now or Later

by Ted O'Donoghue, Matthew Rabin , 1996
"... Though economists assume that intertemporal preferences are time-consistent, evidence suggests that a person 's relative preference for well-being at an earlier moment over a later moment increases as the earlier moment gets closer. We explore the behavioral and welfare implications of such tim ..."
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. These behavioral results have corresponding welfare implications: With salient costs, mild self-control problems can severely damage a person only if she is naive, while with salient rewards mild self-control problems can severely damage a person only if she is sophisticated. We also consider a multiple

Completely Derandomized Self-Adaptation in Evolution Strategies

by Nikolaus Hansen, Andreas Ostermeier - Evolutionary Computation , 2001
"... This paper puts forward two useful methods for self-adaptation of the mutation distribution -- the concepts of derandomization and cumulation. Principle shortcomings of the concept of mutative strategy parameter control and two levels of derandomization are reviewed. Basic demands on the self-adapta ..."
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This paper puts forward two useful methods for self-adaptation of the mutation distribution -- the concepts of derandomization and cumulation. Principle shortcomings of the concept of mutative strategy parameter control and two levels of derandomization are reviewed. Basic demands on the self

Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding

by Michelene T. H. Chi, Nicholas De Leeuw, Mei-hung Chiu, Christian Lavancher - Cognitive Science , 1994
"... Learning involves the integration of new information into existing knowledge. Generoting explanations to oneself (self-explaining) facilitates that integration process. Previously, self-explanation has been shown to improve the acquisition of problem-solving skills when studying worked-out examples. ..."
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Learning involves the integration of new information into existing knowledge. Generoting explanations to oneself (self-explaining) facilitates that integration process. Previously, self-explanation has been shown to improve the acquisition of problem-solving skills when studying worked-out examples

Determinants of perceived ease of use Integrating Control, Intrinsic Motivation, and Emotion into the Technology Acceptance Model.

by Viswanath Venkatesh - Information Systems Research , 2000
"... M uch previous research has established that perceived ease of use is an important factor influencing user acceptance and usage behavior of information technologies. However, very little research has been conducted to understand how that perception forms and changes over time. The current work pres ..."
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presents and tests an anchoring and adjustment-based theoretical model of the determinants of system-specific perceived ease of use. The model proposes control (internal and external-conceptualized as computer self-efficacy and facilitating conditions, respectively), intrinsic motivation (conceptualized

MIXED MNL MODELS FOR DISCRETE RESPONSE

by Daniel Mcfadden, Kenneth Train - JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS J. APPL. ECON. 15: 447--470 (2000) , 2000
"... This paper considers mixed, or random coefficients, multinomial logit (MMNL) models for discrete response, and establishes the following results. Under mild regularity conditions, any discrete choice model derived from random utility maximization has choice probabilities that can be approximated as ..."
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This paper considers mixed, or random coefficients, multinomial logit (MMNL) models for discrete response, and establishes the following results. Under mild regularity conditions, any discrete choice model derived from random utility maximization has choice probabilities that can be approximated

The Economics of Immediate Gratification

by Ted O'Donoghue, Matthew Rabin , 1997
"... People have self-control problems: We pursue immediate gratification in a way that we ourselves do not appreciate in the long run. Only recently have economists begun to focus on the behavioral and welfare implications of such time-inconsistent preferences. In this paper, we outline a simple formal ..."
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of an activity, as well as a person's awareness of future self-control problems. We identify situations where knowing about self-control problems can help a person and situations where it can hurt her, and also identify situations where even mild self-control problems can severely damage a person

Learning to detect objects in images via a sparse, part-based representation

by Shivani Agarwal, Aatif Awan, Dan Roth - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE , 2004
"... We study the problem of detecting objects in still, grayscale images. Our primary focus is development of a learning-based approach to the problem, that makes use of a sparse, part-based representation. A vocabulary of distinctive object parts is automatically constructed from a set of sample image ..."
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We study the problem of detecting objects in still, grayscale images. Our primary focus is development of a learning-based approach to the problem, that makes use of a sparse, part-based representation. A vocabulary of distinctive object parts is automatically constructed from a set of sample

High self-control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal success

by June P. Tangney, Roy F. Baumeister, Angie Luzio Boone, June P. Tangney, Angie Luzio Boone, Department Psychology, George Mason - Journal of Personality , 2004
"... ABSTRACT What good is self-control? We incorporated a new measure of individual differences in self-control into two large investigations of a broad spectrum of behaviors. The new scale showed good internal consistency and retest reliability. Higher scores on self-control correlated with a higher gr ..."
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-called overcontrol, and the positive effects remained after controlling for social desirability. Low self-control is thus a significant risk factor for a broad range of personal and interpersonal problems.

Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children

by O. Ivar Lovaas - Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 1987
"... Autism is a serious psychological disorder with onset in early childhood. Autistic children show minimal emotional ttachment, absent or abnormal speech, retarded IQ, ritualistic behaviors, ag-gression, and self-injury. The prognosis i very poor, and medical therapies have not proven effective. This ..."
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scores and successful first grade performance in public schools. Another 40 % were mildly retarded and assigned to special classes for the language delayed, and only 10 % were pro-foundly retarded and assigned to classes for the autistic/retarded. In contrast, only 2 % of the control-group children (n

Self-Control and the Theory of Consumption’,

by Faruk Gul , Wolfgang Pesendorfer - Econometrica , 2004
"... Abstract We present a model of temptation and self-control for infinite horizon consumption problems under uncertainty. We identify a tractable class of preferences called Dynamic self-control (DSC) preferences. These preferences are recursive, separable, and describe agents who are tempted by imme ..."
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Abstract We present a model of temptation and self-control for infinite horizon consumption problems under uncertainty. We identify a tractable class of preferences called Dynamic self-control (DSC) preferences. These preferences are recursive, separable, and describe agents who are tempted
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