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15-04-2024

Trust and reliance in the cognitive institutions of cryptocurrency

The stated aim of cryptocurrencies is to free the monetary system from the need to trust financial intermediaries, by relying on incentive design and technology. Many descriptive studies, however, have questioned cryptocurrencies’ delivery on the …

Authors:
Enrico Petracca, Shaun Gallagher

06-04-2024

The rationality of recalcitrant emotions in weak judgmentalism

Weak judgmentalism of emotions posits that emotions necessarily involve judgments. However, a standard critique of weak judgmentalism is that it cannot adequately account for the rationality of recalcitrant emotions, which persist despite the …

Author:
Xinyi Zhan

Open Access 21-01-2024

Willingness to pay more health taxes? The relevance of personality traits and situational effects

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the micro and macro predictors of Portuguese willingness to pay (WTP) more taxes to bolster funds channelled to the National Health Service (NHS). An online questionnaire was used to collect data from …

Authors:
Micaela Pinho, Mara Madaleno