Kevin Mccabe

Experience with a hybrid processor: K-means clustering (2007)

Maya Gokhale, Jan Frigo, Kevin Mccabe, James Theiler, Christophe Wolinski, Dominique Lavenier

Abstract We discuss hardware/software co-processing on a hybrid processor for a compute- and data-intensive multispectral imaging algorithm, k-means clustering. The experiments are performed on two...

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Kevin Mccabe, Vernon L. Smith, Bart J. Wilson, Robert Kurzban, Robert Kurzban

Real Time Public Goods 2 Allowing players in public goods games to make small incremental commitments to contributing to the good might facilitate cooperation because it helps to prevent players from...

EXCLUDING FREE-RIDERS IMPROVES RECIPROCITY AND PROMOTES THE PRIVATE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS * (2007)

Anna Gunnthorsdottir A, Daniel Houser B, Kevin Mccabe, Holly Ameden

It is well known that property rights can privatize incentives for the provision of goods that provide public benefits. Unfortunately, it is often infeasible to implement a property rights system...

Preliminary And Incomplete - Please Do Not Quote Without Permission Behavior In A Dynamic Decision Problem: (2007)

Evidence From The, Daniel Houser, Michael Keane, Kevin Mccabe

this paper is as follows: In section 2 we give some background on the literature on experimental analysis of behavior in complex decision problems. In section 3 we present our experimental design. In...

Neural signature of fictive learning signals in a sequential investment task (2007)

Lohrenz, Terry, McCabe, Kevin, Camerer, Colin F., Montague, P. Read

Reinforcement learning models now provide principled guides for a wide range of reward learning experiments in animals and humans. One key learning (error) signal in these models is experiential and...

Behavior in a Dynamic Decision Problem: An Analysis of Experimental Evidence Using a Bayesian Type Classification Algorithm (2004)

Daniel Houser, Michael Keane, Kevin McCabe

Different people may use different strategies, or decision rules, when solving complex decision problems. We provide a new Bayesian procedure for drawing inferences about the nature and number of...

The brain and the law (2004)

Terrence Chorvat, Kevin Mccabe

Much has been written about how law as an institution has developed to solve many problems that human societies face. Inherent in all of these explanations are models of how humans make decisions....

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Daniel Houser A, Antoine Bechara B, Michael Keane C, Kevin Mccabe

In many research contexts it is useful to group experimental subjects into behavioral “types.” Usually, this is done by pre-specifying a set of candidate decision-making heuristics and assigning...

The impact of the certainty context on the process of choice (2002)

Dickhaut, John, McCabe, Kevin, Nagode, Jennifer C., Rustichini, Aldo, Smith, Kip, Pardo, Jose (corresponding Author)

In this study we examine how the introduction of a reference lottery with non-random outcomes alters the way in which choices among pairs of lotteries are made, even if it does not alter the choices....

Discussion Cultural group selection, co evolutionary processes (2002)

Daniel Houser, Kevin Mccabe, Vernon Smith

Before addressing Joseph Henrich’s evolutionary explanation for altruism, it is important to ask whether the existing evidence taken in its entirety actually suggests that preferences are...

Early experience with a hybrid processor: k-means clustering (2001)

Maya Gokhale, Jan Frigo, Kevin Mccabe, James Theiler, Dominique Lavenier

Abstract We discuss hardware/software coprocessing on a hybrid processor for a compute- and data-intensive hyper-spectral imaging algorithm, KMeans Clustering. The experiments are performed on the...

German-Americans 1914-1918 / (1975)

McCabe, Kevin.

Thesis (B.A)--St. Francis College, 1975.

Are decisions under risk malleable?

Fong, Christina, McCabe, Kevin

Human decision making under risk and uncertainty may depend on individual involvement in the outcome-generating process. Expected utility theory is silent on this issue. Prospect theory in its...

A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange

McCabe, Kevin, Houser, Daniel, Ryan, Lee, Smith, Vernon, Trouard, Theodore

Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other's mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From...

The impact of the certainty context on the process of choice

Dickhaut, John, McCabe, Kevin, Nagode, Jennifer C., Rustichini, Aldo, Smith, Kip, Pardo, José V.

In this study we examine how the introduction of a reference lottery with nonrandom outcomes alters the way in which choices among pairs of lotteries are made, even if it does not alter the choices....

Are decisions under risk malleable?

Fong, Christina, McCabe, Kevin

Human decision making under risk and uncertainty may depend on individual involvement in the outcome-generating process. Expected utility theory is silent on this issue. Prospect theory in its...

A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange

McCabe, Kevin, Houser, Daniel, Ryan, Lee, Smith, Vernon, Trouard, Theodore

Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other's mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From...

The impact of the certainty context on the process of choice

Dickhaut, John, McCabe, Kevin, Nagode, Jennifer C., Rustichini, Aldo, Smith, Kip, Pardo, José V.

In this study we examine how the introduction of a reference lottery with nonrandom outcomes alters the way in which choices among pairs of lotteries are made, even if it does not alter the choices....

Risk preference instability across institutions: A dilemma

Berg, Joyce, Dickhaut, John, McCabe, Kevin

In this article we use laboratory experiments to ask a fundamental question: Do individuals behave as if their risk preferences are stable across institutions? In particular, we study the decisions...

The brain and the law.

Chorvat, Terrence, McCabe, Kevin

Much has been written about how law as an institution has developed to solve many problems that human societies face. Inherent in all of these explanations are models of how humans make decisions....

Sustaining cooperation in trust games

Rigdon, Mary, McCabe, Kevin, Smith, Vernon

It is well-known in evolutionary game theory that population clustering in Prisoner's Dilemma games allows some cooperative strategies to invade populations of stable defecting strategies. We adapt...

The meritocracy as a mechanism to overcome social dilemmas

Gunnthorsdottir, Anna, Vragov, Roumen, Mccabe, Kevin, Seifert, Stefan

A new mechanism that substantially mitigates social dilemmas is examined theoretically and experimentally. It resembles the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) except that in each decision round...

The Impact of Exchange Context on the Activation of Equity in Ultimatum Games

Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith

In this paper we report the results of additional exchange ultimatum game experiments conducted at the same time as the exchange ultimatum game experiments reported in Hoffman et al. (Games and...

A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person reciprocal Exchange

McCabe, Kevin, Houser, Daniel, Ryan, Lee, Smith, Vernon, Trouard, Ted

Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other’s mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From...

Neural signature of fictive learning signals in a sequential investment task

Lohrenz, Terry, McCabe, Kevin, Camerer, Colin F., Montague, P. Read

Reinforcement learning models now provide principled guides for a wide range of reward learning experiments in animals and humans. One key learning (error) signal in these models is experiential and...

Behavior in a Dynamic Decision Problem: An Analysis of Experimental Evidence Using a Bayesian Type Classification Algorithm

Daniel Houser, Michael Keane, Kevin McCabe

Different people may use different strategies, or decision rules, when solving complex decision problems. We provide a new Bayesian procedure for drawing inferences about the nature and number of...

Behavior in a dynamic decision problem: An analysis of experimental evidence using a bayesian type classification algorithm

Daniel Houser, Michael Keane, Kevin McCabe

It has been long recognized that different people may use different strategies, or decision rules, when playing games or dealing with other complex decision problems. We provide a new Bayesian...

HEURISTICS USED BY HUMANS WITH PREFRONTAL CORTEX DAMAGE: TOWARD AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF PHINEAS GAGE

Daniel Houser, Kevin McCabe, Michael Keane, Antoine Bechara

In many research contexts it is necessary to group experimental subjects into behavioral “types.” Usually, this is done by pre-specifying a set of candidate decision-making heuristics and then...

Disposition, History and Contributions in Public Goods Experiments

Anna Gunnthorsdottir, Daniel Houser, Kevin McCabe, Holly Ameden

Private incentives to invest in a public good are modeled as self- interested reciprocity where individuals use reputational scoring rules to determine their optimal level of investment. The model...

Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games

Kevin McCabe, Mary Rigdon, Vernon Smith

It is well-known in evolutionary game theory that population clustering in Prisoner Dilemma games allows some cooperative strategies to invade populations of stable defecting strategies. We adapt...

When Punishment Fails: Research on Sanctions, Intentions and Non- Cooperation

Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith

People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel...

When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation

Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith

People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel...

Reciprocity and Social Order: What Do Experiments Tell us About the Failure of Economic Growth?

Kevin McCabe

This paper makes three observations for policy-makers, interested in promoting economic growth, based on the experimental work done at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. First,...

An Experimental Examination of the Walrasian Tatonnement Mechanism

Corinne Bronfman, Kevin McCabe, David Porter, Stephen Rassenti, Vernon Smith

This is a systematic experimental comparison of the efficiency and competitive properties of a computerized multiunit tatonnement with or without a dynamic improvement rule, with or without publicity...

Enterobiasis of the Ovary in a Patient With Cervical Carcinoma In Situ

McCabe, Kevin, Nahn, Patricia A. K., Sahin, Aysegul A., Mitchell, Michele Follen

Background: Enterobiasis occurs throughout the female genital tract and may involve peritoneal surfaces. It is generally an incidental finding at surgery or at autopsy but occasionally is...

on the efficiency of team-based meritocracies

Gunnthorsdottir, Anna, Vragov, Roumen, Seifert, Stefan, McCabe, Kevin

According to theory a pure meritocracy is efficient because individual members are competitively rewarded according to their individual contributions to society. However, purely individually based...

Neural correlates of trust

Krueger, Frank, McCabe, Kevin, Moll, Jorge, Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus, Zahn, Roland, Strenziok, Maren, ...

Trust is a critical social process that helps us to cooperate with others and is present to some degree in all human interaction. However, the underlying brain mechanisms of conditional and...

When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation

Houser, Daniel, Xiao, Erte, McCabe, Kevin, Smith, Vernon

People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and previous research suggests both "intentions" and incentives underlie this effect. We report data from an experiment aimed at...

Neural correlates of economic game playing

Krueger, Frank, Grafman, Jordan, McCabe, Kevin

The theory of games provides a mathematical formalization of strategic choices, which have been studied in both economics and neuroscience, and more recently has become the focus of neuroeconomics...