Commentary: Always do right

Do Connections Always Help

This paper explores the contingent role that social ties play in the emergence of status hierarchies. We argue that, while status is formed based on actors’ perception and understanding of social cues, network structure and position influence this process by influencing the attention and legitimacy given to the focal actor in accordance with social cues that signal an actor’s identity. Using a ...

Is House, M.D., always right?

Gregory House, M.D., stated in one of his memorable if misanthropic aphorisms, that patients lie. “I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do” (Moran & Spicer, 2004). This is true. On the other hand, the patient, like the customer, is always right. This is also true. Reconciliation of these aphorisms leads us some way to understanding the art of medicine and the tribulations of pal...

Commentary: Similar Philosophy Does Not Always Synchronize

Do quantum strategies always win?

In a seminal paper, Meyer[1] described the advantages of quantum game theory by looking at the classical penny flip game. A player using quantum strategy can win against a classical player almost 100% of the time. Here we make a slight modification of the quantum game, with the two players sharing an entangled state to begin with. We then analyse two different scenarios, one in which the quantu...

Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents?

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between o¢ceholders and the electorate, where the o¢ce-holder is initially uninformed about her ability (following Holmström, 1999). If o¢ce-holder e¤ort and ability interact in the “production function” that determines performance in o¢ce, then an o¢ce-holder has an incentive to experiment, i.e. raise e¤ort so that performance beco...