Giving up meat

Giving Up Problem

How do people decide to abandon a problem? Participants were presented with unsolvable water-jar problems, having been accurately informed of the prior probability of solvability. Across three experiments, we discovered effects of prior probability of solvability and of problem-size (number of distinct problem states) on measures of effort and confidence. If a problem is more likely to be solva...

Greece giving up on tobacco control.

Supporting Evolving Objects without Giving up Classes

There are two main models of inheritance employed in object-oriented systems: class-based and object-based inheritance. Although class-based inheritance is beneecial for providing abstractions to encapsulate, classify and structure objects, it is too rigid to deal with the dynamic and unanticipated incremental modiications required in application domains where the func-tionality of objects is s...

Giving the Underdog a Leg Up

In the current work, we experimentally examined the effect of exposure to a narrative of nonviolent resistance on third-party attitudes toward and support for a disempowered group involved in asymmetric conflict. Across three experiments, we found that Americans exposed to a brief video about Palestinian nonviolent resistance consistently registered more favorable attitudes toward Palestinians ...

Media Concentration: Giving up on Democracy

Meyer for suggestions and advice. Portions of this Article were presented to the Communications Law Section of the AALS in New Orleans (Jan. 2002). A preliminary version is included in, Medienkonzentration und Angebotsvielfalt zwischen Kartell-und Rundfunkrecht (Uwe Blaurock ed. 2002) (conference proceedings) and as an appendix to Comments of the Consumers Union et al., MM Docket Nos. 01-235, 9...