Risk tolerance metrics are consistently used in economics experiments as a means to inform researchers how the aggregation of individual choices affects market, organizational, or financial outcomes. Economic theory, however, is silent on their use as a predictive metric for ascertaining why individuals exhibit a particular risk preference. Insight as to the possible drivers of why individuals exhibit a given risk preference may lie in the cognitive and noncognitive characteristics ...
Dr. Paul Yokley described selected aspects of molluscan biology to provide a general introduction to topics to be presented at this workshop. He discussed history of the commercial shell industry and methods for collecting and identifying these invertebrates and showed slides of glochidia and the internal anatomy of mussels. The following questions, comments, and responses following Dr. Yokley's presentation were transcribed and edited. In addition, selected pictures from his talk ...
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