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Regulatory capture theory is a core focus of the branch of public choice referred to as the economics of regulation; economists in this specialty are critical of conceptualizations of governmental regulatory intervention as being motivated to protect the public good.
Regulatory capture is the process through which a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry it is meant to regulate. [2]
Cognitive capture has alternative meanings in the social sciences. It is a type of: ... Inattentional blindness in the field of psychology. Regulatory capture in the ...
The public interest theory of regulation claims that government regulation acts to protect and benefit the public. [1] The public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society. [2] Regulation in this context means the employment of legal instruments (laws and rules) for the implementation of policy objectives.
Attentional control theory focuses on anxiety and cognitive performance. The assumption of this theory is that the effects of anxiety on attentional control are key to understanding the relationship between anxiety and performance. In general, anxiety inhibits attentional control on a specific task by impairing processing efficiency. [37]
Executive functions are limited in capacity and accountable for the initiation, consolidation, regulation, and inhibition of cognitive, language, motor and emotional processes. [2] These processes underlie such functions as self-evaluation, planning, problem solving, controlling impulses and attention, and strategic selection or sequencing of ...
As a cybernetic approach the ground idea of an action/ activity is the regulation. [6] Between the visible work activity and the non visible cognitive processes is a gap, which the Action-Regulation-Theory promise to close. [7] [8] Through a hierarchical-sequential structured model, action steps are supposed to be accurately captured and analysed.
Regulatory focus theory (RFT) is a theory of goal pursuit [1]: 444 formulated by Columbia University psychology professor and researcher E. Tory Higgins regarding people's motivations and perceptions in judgment and decision making processes.