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Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)
When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
People or Video? What Do Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders Choose?
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-07)
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by social, communication and behavioral challenges. This research follows up on reports that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) learn important skills ...
Family Literacy across Three Generations of Undergraduate Students in Africa and the United States: Relation of Family Literacy Experiences on the Grade Point Averages of Undergraduate Students at the University of Botswana, University of Pretoria in South Africa, and Vanderbilt University in the United States
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-19)
The aim of this study was to describe literacy across three generations of undergraduate students (the students, their parents, and their grandparents) in Southern African (at the University of Pretoria and at the University ...
A mind of its own: How a puppet’s reliability affects children’s beliefs about the puppeteer’s knowledge
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-12)
This study assessed whether 4-year-old children think a puppet has a mind separate from that of the puppeteer. 64 children, 48-60 months, watched a puppet (operated by a visible person) and another person label 3 familiar ...
Should Emotions Have a Stake in Decision-Making? An Empirical Evaluation of Intuition.
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)