Aliens behaving badly: children's acquisition of novel purity-based morals.

Year Old Children's Conceptions of Behaving Artifacts and the Influence of Constructing Their Behavior on the Development of Theory of Mind (ToM) and Theory of Artificial Mind (ToAM)

The study examined a new theoretical scheme named ToAM (Theory of Artificial Mind) by means of qualitative and quantitative methodology among twenty four 5-7 year old children from central Israel. It also examined the effects of interacting with behaving artifacts (constructing versus observing the robot's behavior) using the “RoboGan” interface on children's development of ToAM and ToM and loo...

Consumers behaving badly: deviation or innovation? A conceptual exploration of empowered communications online-The case of consumer- producer relationships on the web

Trust by Association: A Meta-Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Networks

Trust mechanisms are used in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to help well-behaving peers find other well-behaving peers with which to trade. Unfortunately, these trust mechanisms often do little to keep badly-behaving peers from entering and taking advantage of the network, which makes the resulting network difficult or impossible to use for legitimate purposes such as e-commerce. We propose trust ...

Translation Strategies in English to Persian Translation of Children's Literature based on Klingberg's Model

This research sought to identify the translation strategies adopted by the translator in Persian translation of 'whatever after, Fairest of all' written by 'Sarah Mlynowski' based on Klingberg's model (1986). To achieve the objectives of the study, a qualitative content analysis design was selected for it. The corpus of the study consisted of 60 pages of the novel 'whatever after, Fairest of al...

Understanding the adaptive functions of morality from a cognitive psychological perspective

What are the possible functions of moral cognition? Addressing this question has proven difficult, leading to disagreement among moral psychologists. Researchers claiming that morality is composed of many distinct domains have posited multiple functions, whereas researchers focusing on the features that are unique to and common across all moral judgments have suggested a unified evolutionary fu...