Deliberative Choice Strategies in Youths: Relevance to Transdiagnostic Anxiety Symptoms

Aberrant decision-making characterizes various pediatric psychopathologies; however, deliberative choice strategies have not been investigated. A transdiagnostic sample of 95 youths completed a child-friendly sequential sampling paradigm. Participants searched for the best offer by sampling a finite list of offers. Participants’ willingness to explore was measured as the number of offers sampled, and ideal task performance was modeled using a Markov decision-process model. As in previous findings in adults, youths explored more offers when lists were long compared with short, yet participants generally sampled fewer offers relative to model-estimated ideal performance. Searching deeper into the list was associated with choosing better price options. Analyses examining the main and interactive effects of transdiagnostic anxiety and irritability symptoms indicated a negative correlation between anxiety and task performance ( p = .01, η p2 = .08). Findings suggest the need for more research on exploratory decision impairments in youths with anxiety symptoms.

Lessons in persistence: Investigating the challenges faced by preservice teachers in teaching coding and computational thinking in an unfamiliar context

An ongoing problem for teacher education institutions is bridging the gap between theory and practice and offering authentic experiences to challenge preservice teachers’ pedagogical decision-making. Preservice practicums simulate teaching and can, at best, offer controlled experiences in familiar settings. This restricts the opportunities for preservice teachers to develop confidence in their own pedagogical decision-making and to adapt curriculum to meet unknown or unforeseen conditions. This paper describes, through a small-scale qualitative case study, a teaching experience in an unfamiliar setting, the persistent actions taken to respond to a specific context and the impact this had on preservice teacher knowledge and self-efficacy. The study found that preservice teacher self-efficacy can be scaffolded in real-world contexts provided sufficient planning, peer support and mentoring is available.

Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions*

We study patterns of behavior in bilateral bargaining situations using a rich new data set describing back-and-forth sequential bargaining occurring in over 25 million listings from eBay’s Best Offer platform. We compare observed behavior to predictions from the large theoretical bargaining literature. One-third of bargaining interactions end in immediate agreement, as predicted by complete-information models. The majority of sequences play out differently, ending in disagreement or delayed agreement, which have been rationalized by incomplete information models. We find that stronger bargaining power and better outside options improve agents’ outcomes. Robust empirical findings that existing models cannot rationalize include reciprocal (and gradual) concession behavior and delayed disagreement. Another robust pattern at odds with existing theory is that players exhibit a preference for making and accepting offers that split the difference between the two most recent offers. These observations suggest that behavioral norms, which are neither incorporated nor explained by existing theories, play an important role in the success of bargaining outcomes.

Health Care as Vocation? Practicing Faithfully in an Age of Disenchantment

In his 1917 lecture “Science as a Vocation,” Max Weber challenged current and aspiring scholars to abandon any pretense that science (Wissenschaft) bears within itself any meaning. In a disenchanted age, he argued, science could at best offer “knowledge of the techniques whereby we can control life . . . through calculation,” and any meaning or moral direction to scientific research—including religious meaning—must be imposed on it from without. Weber presciently anticipated that many present-day health care practitioners would struggle to find meaning for their work within complex “state-capitalist” health care systems, along with predictable quasi-religious responses. But how are Christian practitioners to practice faithfully in a disenchanted age? The authors of this special issue lean deeply into the loci of Christian theology and Christian practice, some challenging the views of the body and of nature that informed Weber’s theory of disenchantment, and all offering resources and paths by which practitioners might “look the fate of the age full in the face” with courage and wisdom.

PERAN KEPUASAN PELANGGAN DALAM MEMEDIASI KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP LOYALITAS PELANGGAN

Nitya Home Stay is one of the lodgings that have nuances of villas on Nusa Lembongan Island, Nusa Penida, Klungkung, Bali. Nitya Home Stay has many competitors who are in Nusa Lembongan. The many inns that exist on Nusa Lembongan make competition so tight. Every company competes to provide the best offer in order to attract customers from competitors. In order to survive in the increasingly fierce competition, Nitya Home Stay must be able to provide maximum service quality so that customers feel satisfied and will have an impact on customer loyalty. This study aims to determine the role of customer satisfaction in mediating service quality to customer loyalty. This research was conducted in Nusa Lembongan, using 125 respondents. This study uses data analysis techniques in the form of Path Analysis. The results of this study indicate that service quality has a positive and significant effect on customer customer satisfaction and loyalty. Customer satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on customer loyalty. Customer satisfaction is positively and significantly mediates service quality towards customer loyalty. Nitya Home Stay needs to continue to improve the quality of service so that customers feel satisfied so as to create customer loyalty. Keywords: service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty

THE PROCEDURE FOR FINANCING PROGRAMS OF THE POLISH NATIONAL ACADEMIC EXCHANGE AGENCY

The National Academic Exchange Agency (NAWA) is a government agency whose subject matter is the implementation of tasks defined by the laws for the system of science and higher education. It has legal personality, and in international relations uses the name "Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange". Programs for the implementation of NAWA tasks are set by its Director. Such programs may be participated by a natural person or legal entity, located in the broadly understood system of science and higher education. The principal right of these entities is applying for financing or co-financing the implementation of NAWA programs. The allocation of funds for the implementation of these programs takes place in an administrative procedure con-cluded with the decision of the Agency Director. This procedure is preceded by a competi-tion to select the best offer, which is subject to formal and substantive evaluation by inde-pendent experts of NAWA. For this purpose, a ranking list is established, and the entity located at the top of the ranking list becomes the winner and, at the same time, the benefi-ciary of financial resources. The decision to grant or refuse to allocate funds for financing or co-financing the imple-mentation of NAWA programs is a subject to verification by the means of remediation or a court-administrative complaint. In the procedure for financing or co-financing programs implementing the NAWA tasks, the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure are not applied. This proceeding is therefore placed in the circle of specific – declassified administrative proceedings.