To bridge the gap between probability and fuzzy theories, the first step is to examine and understand the two sides of the gap. The first part of this book consists of six chapters that lay the foundations of both theories and provide the fundamental principles for constructing the bridge. We (the editors) begin (in Chapter 1) with an introduction to the history of both theories and the stories...

How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

The linguistic fund, that is, the actual lexical inventory of a language, is always considerably larger than the sum total of the contents of dictionaries for that language. It corresponds to all the possibilities of derivation and compounding-with the associated word-formation rules. The exploitation of the latter. within machine-readable dictionaries should therefore allow a far more accurate...

Preschool-aged children are exposed to fantasy stories with the expectation that they will learn messages in those stories that are applied to real-world situations. We examined children's transfer from fantastical and real stories. Over the course of 2 studies, 3½- to 5½-year-old children were less likely to transfer problem solutions from stories about fantasy characters than stories about re...

This paper challenges claims made by Scrum proponents when characterising the communicative nature of user stories: including being more 'authentic' because they comprise spoken language and that they are stories. We argue and decisively demonstrate that neither can be upheld. By incorrectly characterising user stories, we miss opportunities to understand what they are and how they work during ...

The paper represents theoretical and practical approaches to applying storytelling as modern technology for the transmission representation of information. Storytelling has accompanied mankind throughout ages its civilized development, which is probably why so effective in practices managing public opinion. authors offer detailed definitions concepts narrative, provide key sociological philosop...