Whom do you fight?

You do not talk about Fight Club if you do not notice Fight Club: Inattentional blindness for a simulated real-world assault

Inattentional blindness-the failure to see visible and otherwise salient events when one is paying attention to something else-has been proposed as an explanation for various real-world events. In one such event, a Boston police officer chasing a suspect ran past a brutal assault and was prosecuted for perjury when he claimed not to have seen it. However, there have been no experimental studies...

SocioPath: In Whom You Trust?

Distributed systems are getting more and more numerous, complex and used in a wide variety of applications. New solutions and new architectures arise (e.g., clouds) that support new functionalities (e.g., social networks) and pile up several software layers. This evolution implies new non negligible dependences among actors in the system (e.g., providers and users). Some undesirable dependences...

Whom Are You Chatting With?

Instant messengers (IMs) have become a very popular and convenient tool for communication. Having started with simple presence protocols, IMs now support exchange of text, sound, video, even game playing. Tons of information are being daily exchanged through IMs. Still, it seems that IMs favor functionality over security. Most popular IMs (MSN, Yahoo! messenger, ICQ etc...) send data as plainte...

Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects were required to state their own preferences in this scenario. In the second, subjects were asked to state how they believed an average student would respond to the choices. In ...

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