When leaving an international airport, you usually see many people walking straight through customs, but occasionally a passenger with large suitcases up on shiny metal tables, with customs officers going through the contents. How the customs officers decide which people to stop?
The New York Times reports on a report, written by the MTA, about the decisions of subway riders:
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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE AMA INTERVIEWS (2013 edition) PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should send their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Educator’s Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re […]
DARN THAT IS INTERESTING Rob Kurzban has an interesting write up of this article on the dictator game here. ABSTRACT Economic experiments are increasingly being used in a number of research areas and are a major source of data guiding the debate surrounding the nature of human prosociality. The degree to which experiment behavior accurately […]
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If you’ve ever wondered about The Heuristics Debate, this is the book for you. If you have no interest in heuristics, you’ll probably be happier with another book. How about one of these?
