Purely Theoretical Explanations

Theoretical Explanations 1 RUNNING HEAD: THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS Strengths and limitations of theoretical explanations in psychology

Theoretical Explanations for Firms' Information Privacy Behaviors

Information privacy is an important information management issue that is increasingly challenging managers and policy makers. While many studies have investigated information privacy as an individual, sectoral, or national level phenomenon, there is a gap in our understanding of organizational approaches to developing and implementing policies and programs to manage customer information privacy...

Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality

My contribution to this Symposium focuses on the links between sexuality and reproduction from the evolutionary point of view.' The relation between women's sexuality and reproduction is particularly important because of a vital intersection between politics and biology feminists have noticed, for more than a century, that women's identity is often defined in terms of her reproductive capacity....

A comparison of empirical and theoretical explanations of temporal discrimination.

The empirical goals were to describe the behavior of rats trained on multiple temporal discriminations and to use these descriptions to predict behavior observed under new training conditions. The theoretical goals were to fit a quantitative theory to behavior from one training condition, estimate parameters for the intervening perception, memory, and decision processes, and use these parameter...

Theoretical Foundations of Value Withdrawal Explanations for Domain Reduction

Solvers on finite domains use local consistency notions to remove values from the domains. This paper defines value withdrawal explanations. Domain reduction is formalized with chaotic iterations of monotonic operators. To each operator is associated its dual which will be described by a set of rules. For classical consistency notions, there exists a natural such system of rules. They express v...