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Guilt in decision making. The effect of guilt emotion on how a decision maker focuses on a problem was investigated in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (see Exercise 3.48, p. 183). A sample of 77 volunteer students participated in one portion of the experiment, where each was randomly assigned […]
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How workers respond to wage cuts. Refer to the Institute for the Study of Labor: Discussion Paper Series (March 2011) study of how workers respond to wage cuts, Exercise 9.22 (p. 543). Recall that teams of workers were divided into three wage cut groups: “unilateral wage cut,†“general wage cut,†and “baseline†(no wage cut). […]
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Evaluation of flexography printing plates. Refer to the Journal of Graphic Engineering and Design (Vol. 3, 2012) study of the quality of flexography printing, Exercise 9.24 (p. 544). Recall that four different exposure times were studied—8, 10, 12, and 14 minutes—and that the measure of print quality used was dot area (hundreds of dots per […]
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Performance of a bus depot. Refer to the International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (February 2011) study of public bus depot performance, Exercise 9.25 (p. 544). Recall that 150 customers provided overall performance ratings at each of three different bus depots (Depot 1, Depot 2, and Depot 3). The average performance scores were determined […]