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Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)
When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
Diagrams Benefit Symbolic Problem Solving
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)
How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
Memory Encoding: The Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
The Effects of Social Context on the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotion Sharing
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)
The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...