Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group.
The trouble is that the alternatives to a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation all require the parties to cut deals on precisely the same issues that are frustrating a successful conclusion to the UN-led negotiations: territory, property, security.Why should the parties reach painful compromises for a lesser reward?
The farm bill of 2002 began a gentle push in the direction of more help for the poor – and a lesser reward for work – as it provided for state-level expansions of the food stamp program, a program less affected than welfare was by the 1996 work requirements.
In the risk tasks, one choice represents lesser risk with lesser reward and the other choice represents greater risk with greater reward.
Experimentally, different perceptual choices can be arranged to receive greater or lesser reward, contingent upon a correct decision.
By touching the other 'escape flag' the monkey could avoid the test but be sure of a lesser reward, a pellet of ordinary primate food (Fig. 1).
The unrewarded pictures were uncorrelated with juice reward in pseudorandom trials, but the overall reward probability of p = 0.33 would allow Pavlovian reward conditioning of the contextual background, whereas the unrewarded blocks constituted lesser rewarded contexts.
Even the lesser stories reward us with moments of insight and frequent prose delights.
Tucked away in a nondescript corner of the cavernously airy, avant garde newsroom to which The New York Times staff decamped in 2007, abandoning the musty building the paper had inhabited for the previous 100 years, Abramson's command post is a monk's cell compared to the grandiose chambers with which lesser Manhattan executives reward their success.
However, because light intensity is a lesser predictor of future reward, the long path of the visual system must do more work than the short path of the gustatory system in order to cause the same reduction in reward uncertainty.
