She also tests her hypotheses in various laboratory experiments designed to isolate the core behavioral assumptions and in so doing continues in the tradition begun by Nobelist Vernon Smith.
In addition, at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab, she is leading a variety of field experiments designed to strengthen parental engagement and child development in low-income families using tools drawn from behavioral economics and neuroscience.
Twenty-three right-handed volunteers (19 females, mean = 27.69 years, S.D. = 3.5) participated in the behavioral experiment designed for stimulus selection and validation.
This paper reports a laboratory experiment designed to begin a behavioral examination of the Antitrust Logit Model (ALM), a merger simulation device that U.S. antitrust authorities use to help determine when anticompetitive problems may arise from horizontal mergers in differentiated-product markets.
In the experiment designed to study the behavioral effects of constant light and darkness in adulthood (e.g. Fig. 2), flies were kept in constant light throughout larval and pupal stages and, upon eclosion, were kept for 4 days under one of the following conditions: LL, DD or DD2LL2 (two days darkness followed by two days light).
Thus the second behavioral experiment was designed to approach this issue differently.
A combination of behavioral experiments with crosses designed to introgress alleles from the asexual into sexual genome revealed decay of all investigated sexual traits and suggested a surprisingly simple genetic architecture underlying trait decay.
By combining behavioral experiments with crosses designed to introgress alleles from the asexual into the sexual genome, we found that sexual attractiveness, mating, egg fertilization and plastic adjustment of offspring sex ratio (in response to variation in local mate competition) are decayed in asexual A. japonica females.
Experiments included cognitive restructuring exercises for mood management, behavioral activation exercises focused on increasing physical activity, and behavioral exercises designed to build self-efficacy for smoking cessation (e.g., learning to delay smoking in response to urges, practice quit attempts).
