What would you do?

What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?().

Would people choose what they think would maximize their subjective well-being (SWB)? We present survey respondents with hypothetical scenarios and elicit both choice and predicted SWB rankings of two alternatives. While choice and predicted SWB rankings usually coincide in our data, we find systematic reversals. We identify factors-such as predicted sense of purpose, control over one's life, f...

Death after discharge--what would you do?

ith sferred . In the usual pile of paperwork was a newspaper clippin (not his real name to respect confidentiality) had died 2 after his discharge to another facility. I had a feeling it happen, but it greatly upset me nevertheless. The ques were the usual ones a doctor asks when a patient dies. I have done anything to prevent it? What should I do n better understand what happened and to preven...

What Would You Do? Acting by Learning to Predict

We propose to learn tasks directly from visual demonstrations by learning to predict the outcome of human and robot actions on an environment. We enable a robot to physically perform a human demonstrated task without knowledge of the thought processes or actions of the human, only their visually observable state transitions. We evaluate our approach on two table-top, object manipulation tasks a...

What would you do if it were your kid?

"What would you do, what if it's you?" Strategies to deal with a bully.

Accepted on December 8, 2008 Bullying can be defined as a repeated negative interpersonal relationship characterized by an imbalance of power targeted at a person that is perceived to be weaker or more vulnerable, without apparent provocation. One study reported that 30% of 6th-10th graders in the United States were either a bully, a target of bullying, or both.When bullying is not addressed, t...