The Master of Nasty

The Pleasure of Being Nasty

Many laboratory experiments show that people are often altruistic or care for fairness. We present data that reveal a darker side of human nature. We introduce the joy-of-destruction game. Two players each receive an endowment and simultaneously decide on how much of the other player’s endowment to destroy. Subjects play this game repeatedly. In one treatment, subjects can hide their destructio...

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Some Nasty Reflexive Groups

In Almost Free Modules, Set-theoretic Methods, Eklof and Mekler [5, p. 455, Problem 12] raised the question about the existence of dual abelian groups G which are not isomorphic to Z ⊕G. Recall that G is a dual group if G ∼= D for some groupD withD = Hom (D,Z). The existence of such groups is not obvious because dual groups are subgroups of cartesian products Z and therefore have very many homo...

No more Mr Nasty.

A s my 6-year term as Chief Editor of EMBO Reports draws to its close, I think it’s time to offer a personal reflection on what it’s like to have been in what some may think of as one of the most hated positions in academic science. I consider myself lucky that at least a handful of colleagues are still speaking both to me and to my team of professional editors in Heidelberg, who do all the wor...

Point Sets Can Have Nasty