This paper develops a dynamic model of the decisions on the quantity and quality of children that is based on two premises: (1) the quality of children is uncertain when parents make a human capital investment decision, and (2) the quality distributions of two children of a woman are less correlated if they are fathered by different men than by the same man due to genetic inheritance. It natura...

The body of knowledge about the relationship between multimedia and first impression bias, which has been mainly accumulated in North America, may not be generalizable in other countries because theories ground on one culture may not necessarily apply in other cultures. To better understand how multimedia can be applied successfully in various cultures for reducing first impression bias, resear...

This research-in-progress paper investigates the impact of social structures in virtual worlds (VWs) on the diffusion of innovations within them. Research has illustrated that innovation diffusion takes place within virtual worlds. VWs facilitate the emergence of purposeful communities which support the (often real-world) activities of their members including the development and adoption of inn...

The subject of this article is probabilistic systems generalizing the usual− “classical” − probability theory and requiring less information to formulate a probability statement. An important example of such a system is provided by interval-valued probability allowing for ( ) P A = [0.2; 0.3] and similar propositions. While from a theoretical standpoint all empirical knowledge must be of restri...

When one conjoins relatively well supported views on language acquisition and typology with frequently held views on the neural realization of meaning and some general principles of evolution and development, one seems to arrive at what I shall call the Complex-First Paradox. At its core is the question why concepts of substances, typically expressed by concrete nouns, seem to lexicalize ontoge...

The development and empirical examination of a tripartite model of the therapeutic relationship over nearly three decades are described. The model asserts that all therapeutic relationships, to varying degrees, consist of a real relationship, a working alliance, and a transference-countertransference configuration. Research testing propositions about how each of these components is related to t...

The conventional wisdom in public opinion research suggests that the white public views government spending as a single race-coded issue. This article develops an alternative theory that rests on two propositions. First, the white public sees government spending not as a single issue, but rather, as two distinct issues: spending on the deserving poor and spending on the undeserving poor. Second...