Why Under Stress Positive Reinforcement Is More Effective? Why Optimists Study Better? Why People Become Restless? Simple Utility-Based Explanations

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

4-2018

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-18-32

Published in Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2018, Vol. 46, pp. 66-72.

Abstract

In this paper, we use the utility-based approach to decision making to provide simple answers to the following three questions: Why under stress positive reinforcement is more effective? Why optimists study better? Why people become restless?