Larger than Life

Larger than Life: Humans' Nonverbal Status Cues Alter Perceived Size

BACKGROUND Social dominance and physical size are closely linked. Nonverbal dominance displays in many non-human species are known to increase the displayer's apparent size. Humans also employ a variety of nonverbal cues that increase apparent status, but it is not yet known whether these cues function via a similar mechanism: by increasing the displayer's apparent size. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL...

RealLife: The continuum limit of Larger than Life cellular automata

Let A := {0, 1}. A cellular automaton (CA) is a shift-commuting transformation of AZD determined by a local rule. Likewise, a Euclidean automaton (EA) is a shiftcommuting transformation of ARD determined by a local rule. Larger than Life (LtL) CA are long-range generalizations of J.H. Conway’s Game of Life CA, proposed by K.M. Evans. We prove a conjecture of Evans: as their radius grows to infi...

"A Rationality Larger Than The Material Universe"

Is an ant larger than a lion?

In order to examine the influence exerted by an irrelevant semantic variable in a comparative judgment task, we employed a Stroop-like paradigm. The stimuli were pairs of animal names that were different in their physical and semantic sizes (e.g., ant lion). Participants were asked to judge which of the two words was larger either in physical or in semantic size. Size congruity effect (i.e., fa...

Computing Requires Larger Formulas than Approximating

A de Morgan formula over Boolean variables x1, . . . , xn is a binary tree whose internal nodes are marked with AND or OR gates and whose leaves are marked with variables or their negation. We define the size of the formula as the number of leaves in it. Proving that some explicit function (in P or NP) requires large formula is a central open question in computational complexity. While we belie...