Truth over identity? Cultural cognition weakly replicates across 23 countries

The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

S6 Text: Pooling Data Sets Across Replicates

When using likelihood methods to quantify and to assess pooled data sets – thus assuming independence of dyads (S8 Text) – we explicitly allow m to vary across replicates while estimating a single RCP value in the likelihood-maximization process. When using bootstrap methods (S7 Text), as we do whenever individual-molecule data are available, we do not explicitly account for the possibility tha...

Weakly Classical Theories of Identity

There are well-known quasi-formal arguments that identity is a “strict” relation in at least the following three senses: (1) There is a single identity relation and a single distinctness relation; (2) There are no contingent cases of identity or distinctness; and (3) There are no vague or indeterminate cases of identity or distinctness. However, the situation is less clear cut than it at first ...

Assessing health care outcomes across OECD countries and over time

Improving health care systems, while containing cost pressures, is a key policy challenge in most OECD countries. The recent economic and financial crisis has weighed heavily on fiscal positions – with gross government debt projected to exceed 100% of GDP in the OECD area by 2011 – and reinforced the need to improve public spending efficiency. Public spending on health care is one of the larges...

Trust, Truth, Status and Identity an Experimental Inquiry Trust, Truth, Status and Identity an Experimental Inquiry *

In an experiment involving a standard trust game and a costless signalling game, it is demonstrated that economically relevant norm-based behaviors (trust, reciprocity and truth-telling) vary with social identity. The experimental procedure induced two trivial social identities. In one version, a status difference was induced. The results permitted a succinct description of identity effects: su...