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Many accidents are attributed to human errors. Abundant evidences could be found in major accidents in petro-chemical, nuclear, aviation, and other industries. In the nuclear power industry, safe operation heavily relies on the operators' interaction with plant systems. For exam…

When participants in a forced choice experiment encounter a stimulus that requires the same response two or more trials in a row, their correct responses are faster, which is called the repetition effect. A repetition effect for response times has been observed and studied for o…

The study of decision making has been dominated by economic perspectives, which model people as rational agents who carefully weigh costs and benefits and try to maximize the utility of every choice, without consideration of issues such as cultural norms, religious beliefs and m…