Shannon Hunter Hurtado, Genteel Mavericks

Probability Notes Compiled by Paul J . Hurtado

Workplace mavericks: how personality and risk-taking propensity predicts maverickism.

We examine the relationship between lateral preference, the Five-Factor Model of personality, risk-taking propensity, and maverickism. We take an original approach by narrowing our research focus to only functional aspects of maverickism. Results with 458 full-time workers identify lateral preference as a moderator of the neuroticism-maverickism relationship. Extraversion, openness to experienc...

Of Power and Plenty? Europe, Soft Power, and ‘Genteel Stagnation’

This article reviews three recent books on the EU: T.R. Reid’s The United States of Europe:The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Penguin, New York, 2004); Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century (Fourth Estate, London, 2005); and Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (Tarcher/Penguin, New York, 2...

Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission

Conformity is a type of social learning that has received considerable attention among social psychologists and human evolutionary ecologists, but existing empirical research does not identify conformity cleanly. Conformity is more than just a tendency to follow the majority; it involves an exaggerated tendency to follow the majority. The “exaggerated” part of this definition ensures that confo...

Word Hunter

For this project we propose and implement a reading tool on Andriod platform that can be used to identify keywords on paper-based media. We breakdown the image processing after receiving an image of the media into three steps. In the first step, we pre-process the image using binarization, deskew and de-noising. The second step involves using OCR (in particular, Tesseract OCR engine) to recogni...