Agentic traits, even when perceived as low value, still hold sway in management

When ' neutral ' evidence still has probative value ( with implications from

The likelihood ratio (LR) is a probabilistic method that has been championed as a ‘simple rule’ for evaluating the probative value of forensic evidence in court. Intuitively, if the LR is greater than one then the evidence supports the prosecution hypothesis; if the LR is less than one it supports the defence hypothesis, and if the LR is equal to one then the evidence favours neither (and so is...

When Does Schwartz Conjecture Hold?

In 1990, Thomas Schwartz proposed the conjecture that every nonempty tournament has a unique minimal τ -retentive set (τ stands for tournament equilibrium set). A weak variant of Schwartz’s Conjecture was recently proposed by Felix Brandt. However, both conjectures were disproved very recently by two counterexamples. In this paper, we prove sufficient conditions for infinite classes of tourname...

Even when people are manipulating algebraic equations, they still associate numerical magnitude with space

The development of symbolic algebra transformed civilization. Since algebra is a recent cultural invention, however, algebraic reasoning must build on a foundation of more basic capacities. Past work suggests that spatial representations of number may be part of that foundation, but recent studies have failed to find relations between spatial-numerical associations and higher mathematical skill...

Postural Sway Correlates of Perceived Comfort in Pointing Tasks

People grasp objects differently depending on what they plan to do with the objects. One hypothesis concerning this tendency is based on the end-state comfort effect, which has been described as a tendency to grasp an object in an uncomfortable way that allows for a more comfortable final posture [1]. Following up on this hypothesis, we sought to introduce quantitative indices of “comfort” base...

Why Even the Logic of Re-Defined Choice May Still Contradict the Logic of Care in Public Health Systems?