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Who do you turn to? Predicting trust in online advice

Many people are now influenced by the information and advice they find on the Internet, much of it of dubious quality. This paper is concerned with those factors capable of influencing people’s response to online advice. It describes a survey of over two and a half thousand people who had actively sought advice over the Internet. A framework for understanding trust in online advice is proposed ...

You Turn Me Cold: Evidence for Temperature Contagion

INTRODUCTION During social interactions, our own physiological responses influence those of others. Synchronization of physiological (and behavioural) responses can facilitate emotional understanding and group coherence through inter-subjectivity. Here we investigate if observing cues indicating a change in another's body temperature results in a corresponding temperature change in the observer...

"If You Can Turn a Rectangle into a Square, You Can Turn a Square into a Rectangle ..." Young Students Experience the Dragging Tool

This paper describes a study of the cognitive complexity of young students, in the pre-formal stage, experiencing the dragging tool. Our goal was to study how various conditions of geometric knowledge and various mental models of dragging interact and influence the learning of central concepts of quadrilaterals. We present three situations that reflect this interaction. Each situation is charac...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

Suppose one beautiful morning you turn on the radio and you hear the voice of George W

In his admirably clear, beautifully argued study, Claude Panaccio has provided an able defense of Ockham’s position in response to an argument I presented against Ockham in a discussion with Peter King eight years ago at a meeting in Pittsburgh. But after eight years, and even after Claude’s book, I still stand by that argument. So, in these comments I will attempt to explain why I think Ockham...