Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Decision Making | 6 |
Foreign Countries | 6 |
Probability | 6 |
Attention | 3 |
Cognitive Processes | 3 |
Selection | 3 |
Undergraduate Students | 3 |
Cognitive Style | 2 |
Comparative Analysis | 2 |
Educational Attainment | 2 |
Educational Finance | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
International Association for… | 1 |
Journal of Education and… | 1 |
Journal of Experimental… | 1 |
Journal of Statistics… | 1 |
National Bureau of Economic… | 1 |
Psychological Bulletin | 1 |
Author
Hochman, Guy | 2 |
Yechiam, Eldad | 2 |
Abramitzky, Ran | 1 |
Ashby, Nathaniel J. S. | 1 |
Klein, Joseph | 1 |
Kukliansky, Ida | 1 |
Levy, Victor | 1 |
Segev, Maayan | 1 |
Tal, Yael | 1 |
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 5 |
Journal Articles | 4 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 4 |
Postsecondary Education | 4 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Israel | 6 |
Asia | 1 |
Australia | 1 |
Brazil | 1 |
Connecticut | 1 |
Denmark | 1 |
Egypt | 1 |
Estonia | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Germany | 1 |
Greece | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Yechiam, Eldad; Ashby, Nathaniel J. S.; Hochman, Guy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
The majority of the literature on the psychology of gains and losses suggests that losses lead to an avoidance response. Several studies, however, have shown that losses can also lead to an approach response, whereby an option is selected more often when it produces losses. In five studies we examine the boundary conditions for these contradictory…
Descriptors: Fear, Responses, Attention, Selection
Tal, Yael; Kukliansky, Ida – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore the judgments and reasoning in probabilistic tasks that require comparing two probabilities either with or without introducing an additional degree of uncertainty. The reasoning associated with the task having an additional condition of uncertainty has not been discussed in previous studies. The 66 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis, Statistics, Probability
Abramitzky, Ran; Levy, Victor; Segev, Maayan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
We study the impact of financial incentives on higher education decisions and the choice of major. We rely on a reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted from their traditional policy of equal sharing to productivity-based wages. We use for identification the staggered implementation of this reform in different kibbutzim. In this setting of very…
Descriptors: Incentives, Higher Education, Decision Making, Majors (Students)
Yechiam, Eldad; Hochman, Guy – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
It has been shown that in certain situations losses exert a stronger effect on behavior than respective gains, and this has been commonly explained by the argument that losses are given more weight in people's decisions than respective gains. However, although much is understood about the effect of losses on cognitive processes and behavior, 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Experience, Risk
Klein, Joseph – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Recent neurophysiological advances may support the advisability of delaying decisions when possible and practical. An empirical study, based on an educational dilemma, compared the outcome of postponing an educational decision overnight or for a longer period. 340 teachers read a report on an educational dilemma and gave an immediate opinion.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Utilization, Educational Research, Educational Improvement
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers