‘Will you or can’t you?’: Displaying entitlement in interrogative requests

What Will You Sacrifice?

Hereditary cancer syndromes: if you look, you will find them.

H ereditary cancer syndromes are estimated to account for up to 10% of all new cancer diagnoses in children and adults [1–4]. Given the current incidence of pediatric cancer, this translates to greater than 1,300 children in the United States and Canada diagnosed each year with a cancer related to a hereditary cancer syndrome. However, this widely quoted 10% rate is just an estimate extrapolate...

It Will Happen to You

Everyone experiences bereavement but few give prior thought to it. Knowing something about the possible reactions and repercussions of bereavement is the best preparation for it.

Which Topic Will You Follow?

Who are the most appropriate candidates to receive a call-for-paper or call-for-participation? What session topics should we propose for a conference of next year? To answer these questions, we need to precisely predict research topics of authors. In this paper, we build a MLR (Multiple Logistic Regression) model to predict the topic-following behavior of an author. By empirical studies, we fin...

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 ...