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Direct linkHogarth, Robin M.; Mukherjee, Kanchan; Soyer, Emre – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Additive integration of information is ubiquitous in judgment and has been shown to be effective even when multiplicative rules of probability theory are prescribed. We explore the generality of these findings in the context of estimating probabilities of success in contests. We first define a normative model of these probabilities that takes…
Descriptors: Competition, Information Seeking, Decision Making Skills, Heuristics
Encrenaz, Gaelle; Contrand, Benjamin; Leffondre, Karen; Queinec, Raphaelle; Aouba, Albertine; Jougla, Eric; Miras, Alain; Lagarde, Emmanuel – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Our objective was to determine whether the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in 1998 had a short-term impact on the number of suicides in France. Exhaustive individual daily data on suicides from 1979 to 2006 were obtained from the French epidemiological center on the medical causes of death (CepiDC-INSERM;…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Social Integration, Prevention, Suicide
Download full textHoareau, Cecile – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
The French Government has had a paradoxical relationship with globalization. Globalization is perceived as both a threat to react against and a cradle for new policy ideas. French policymakers have a love-hate relationship with the European higher education reforms that started in the 1990s, a mixed sentiment that French singer Serge Gainsbourg…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Competition, Educational Change
Light, Richard L.; Harvey, Stephen; Memmert, Daniel – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
This article builds upon research on youth sport clubs conducted from a socio-cultural perspective by reporting on a study that inquired into the reasons why children aged 9-12 joined swimming clubs in France, Germany and Australia. Comprising three case studies it employed a mixed method approach with results considered within the framework of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Youth Clubs, Children, Group Membership
Bulle, Nathalie – Comparative Education, 2011
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems' relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Competition
Powell, Justin J. W.; Bernhard, Nadine; Graf, Lukas – Sociology of Education, 2012
Proposing an alternative to the American model, intergovernmental reform initiatives in Europe have developed and promote a comprehensive European model of skill formation. What ideals, standards, and governance are proposed in this new pan-European model? This model responds to heightened global competition among "knowledge societies"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, National Standards
Allies, Christian; Troquet, Michel – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Trade globalisation is beginning to affect universities worldwide. In response to this outside pressure, institutions have become more geared to gaining international repute through research than to maintaining their reputation at home for the quality of their teaching. As a result of this focus on research, French universities, for example, are…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, International Trade, Educational Quality
