Handbuch zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Brunken, Otto; Hurrelmann, Bettina; Pech, Klaus-Ulrich

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05576-7

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“…51 The relationship between the invested mental effort and cognitive load is indirect as a low level of mental effort could be the result of either a low cognitive load or of such a disproportionately high cognitive load that the respondent subsequently decreased the invested mental effort. 52 Despite this indirect relationship, numerous studies have shown that most people are quite capable of rating their invested mental effort on a numerical scale. 53 Other subjective measures of cognitive load include the rating on a numerical scale of the difficulty of the materials that subjects have to evaluate 54 and the reporting of their experienced stress level.…”

Section: Contractual Complexity and Randd Alliance Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contractual Complexity and the Cognitive Load of R&D Alliance Contracts

Hagedoorn

Hesen

2009

J Empirical Legal Studies

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We offer a new perspective on measuring the complexity of interfirm contracts. We define complex contracts as those contracts that contain many elements (clauses) with a relatively large number of interdependencies that also impose a significant cognitive load on contract parties. Previous studies on contractual complexity employ objective measures such as the number of pages, the number of kilobytes, or the number of provisions to measure this complexity. Following some suggestions in the literature, we argue that the degree to which a contract imposes a cognitive load on contract parties should be taken as another important dimension of contractual complexity. We develop a conceptual model of the complexity of contracts using a multidimensional perspective where both objective and subjective dimensions are taken into account. Our empirical analysis combines a sample of nearly 400 R&D alliance contracts in the biopharmaceutical industry with a measurement of the cognitive load of these contracts. Our findings show that quantitative, objective measures of complexity, such as length, and objective as well as subjective elements of the cognitive load of contracts, that is, the information‐processing effort that contractual parties have to make, do indeed measure different aspects of contractual complexity.

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Section: Contractual Complexity and Randd Alliance Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%