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Ulf Liebe; Sander van Cranenburgh; Caspar Chorus – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Empirical studies on individual behaviour often, implicitly or explicitly, assume a single type of decision rule. Other studies do not specify behavioural assumptions at all. We advance sociological research by introducing (random) regret minimization, which is related to loss aversion, into the sociological literature and by testing it against…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Neighborhood Schools, Decision Making, Individual Differences
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von Krause, Mischa; Radev, Stefan T.; Voss, Andreas; Quintus, Martin; Egloff, Boris; Wrzus, Cornelia – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
In recent years, mathematical models of decision making, such as the diffusion model, have been endorsed in individual differences research. These models can disentangle different components of the decision process, like processing speed, speed-accuracy trade-offs, and duration of non-decisional processes. The diffusion model estimates individual…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Mathematical Models, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
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Janke, Stefan – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Enrollment at university can be based on personal interests (intrinsically motivated) as well as financial prospects (extrinsically motivated). I investigate whether and how these qualities of motivation for enrollment influence achievement motivation and well-being of university students at the beginning of their studies. Thereby, I relied on…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Student Motivation, Achievement Need, Well Being
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Hommers, Wilfried; Lewand, Martin; Ehrmann, Dominic – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
This paper seeks to unify two major theories of moral judgment: Kohlberg's stage theory and Anderson's moral information integration theory. Subjects were told about thoughts of actors in Kohlberg's classic altruistic Heinz dilemma and in a new egoistical dilemma. These actors's thoughts represented Kohlberg's stages I (Personal Risk) and IV…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Theories, Moral Development
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Raab, Markus; Johnson, Joseph G. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004
The goal of this article is to explain empirical risk-taking behavior in sports from an individual cognitive modeling perspective. A basketball task was used in which participants viewed four video options that varied in the degree of associated risk. The participants were independently classified by scores on the Questionnaire for Assessing…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Team Sports, Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns