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Pu, Shi; Zhang, Liang – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
We used housing data from a Chinese college to examine peer effects on students' major persistence and major choices after dropping out of their initial majors. Random checks were performed to ensure that student peers--dormitory roommates and social group mates--were randomly assigned according to a few known factors. In addition, two peer groups…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Decision Making
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Su, Yin; Rao, Li-Lin; Sun, Hong-Yue; Du, Xue-Lei; Li, Xingshan; Li, Shu – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The debate about whether making a risky choice is based on a weighting and adding process has a long history and is still unresolved. To address this long-standing controversy, we developed a comparative paradigm. Participants' eye movements in 2 risky choice tasks that required participants to choose between risky options in single-play and…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Risk, Decision Making, Task Analysis