Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation (open access)

Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation

This article investigates the six cognitive biases resulting from the use of the representativeness heuristic, namely, insensitivity to prior probability of outcomes, insensitivity to sample size, misconception of chance, insensitivity to predictability, the illusion of validity, and misconception of regression. Specifically, the authors examine how cognitive reflection and training affect these six cognitive biases in the operations management context.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: AlKhars, Mohammed; Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Pavur, Robert J. & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys (open access)

Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys

Article discusses experimental results which reveal that the apparent activation-energy for grain-growth in an fcc-based AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) system increases from 179 to 486 kJ/mol when the Al content increases from x = 0.1 to 0.3.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Salloom, Riyadh; Alam, Talukder; Valentin, S.G.; Zhou, X.; Thompson, G. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins (open access)

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
System: The UNT Digital Library