Overcoming Barriers by Doing Things Differently

Seeing Things Differently

P Cotton, by Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982), is a work of folk art that captures Rowe’s experiences as an African American woman living in rural Georgia, United States. Nellie Mae Rowe was born on July 4, 1900, as the ninth of ten children. The family lived on a rented farm 20 miles south of Atlanta. Her father, a farmer and blacksmith, was born a slave in 1854; her mother, born the year after Pre...

Looking at Things Differently

When retrieving informal text such as blogs, comments, contributions to discussion forums, users often want to uncover different perspectives on a given issue. To help uncover perspectives, we examine the use of query expansion against multiple external corpora. We consider two informal text retrieval tasks: blog post finding and blog finding. We operationalize the idea of uncovering multiple p...

Doing Things With Acts

Doing the right things.

This letter identifies recent examples of misrepresentation of biological helical structures and expresses concern about the continuing indulgent attitude towards distortion of scientific facts. It also teaches a simple trick to distinguish right- from left-handedness.

Liking the Same thingS, but Doing thingS DifferentLy: outcome VerSuS Strategic compatibiLity in partner preferenceS for Joint taSkS

497 © 2011 Guilford Publications, Inc. The research reported in this article was conducted as part of the first author’s doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, and was supported by Grant 39429 from the National Institute of Mental Health to E. Tory Higgins. We wish to thank Dan Molden, Eli Finkel, and Gale Lucas for their helpful suggestions. Correspondence concerning this article should...