Writing blank checks? How government funding affects interest organisations’ advocacy behaviour in a multi-layered context

How Context Affects Choice

Due to its origins in the literature on judgment and decision-making, context effects in marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other relevant context effects on choice. This paper broadens the scope of c...

Chaining Layered Integrity Checks

Chaining Layered Integrity Checks William A. Arbaugh Jonathan M. Smith \Dover y, no Prover y" “Trust, but Verify”1 In a system, the integrity of lower layers is typically treated as axiomatic by higher layers. Under the presumption that the hardware comprising the system (the lowest layer) is valid, the integrity of a layer can be guaranteed if and only if: (1) the integrity of the lower layers...

Functional Interest Advocacy in Modern Complex Litigation

How experimental trial context affects perceptual categorization

To understand object categorization, participants are tested in experiments often quite different from how people experience object categories in the real world. Learning and knowledge of categories is measured in discrete experimental trials, those trials may or may not provide feedback, trials appear one after another, after some fixed inter-trial interval, with hundreds of trials in a row, w...

Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time

What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to bottom. But in Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then right to left. Because being a fluent reader-writer entails thousands of hours of experience with eye and hand mo...