The electoral law in France has been adapted to introduce e-voting. This voting method is however restricted to the eleven constituencies of French citizens living abroad in order to cope with the specificities of this electorate, notably its remoteness from polling stations. The legal framework as well as the technical solution was built in order to preserve the general principles applying to ...

We ask whether the absence of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sincere. We start by classifying voting mechanisms as simple and complex according to the number of message types voters can use to elect alternatives. We show that while the elimination of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sin...

This study compared the prosody of sarcastic and sincere attitudes in Mexican Spanish in terms of three sentence-level factors (i.e. fundamental frequency (F0) mean, F0 range, and speed of speech) and three word-level factors (i.e. stressed syllable duration, F0 movement, and stressed vowel intensity). For F0, the connection between utterance-final activity and attitude was also examined. Acous...

Allyship is gaining popularity as a tool to combat discrimination. We developed and tested novel allyship positive psychology intervention (PPI). Importantly, we examined observers’ perceptions of effectiveness given that observers represent the majority in many settings. Study 1 (N = 787) an highlighted female employee’s identity-related strengths following discrimination episode. Compared com...

to read the text of Michel foucault’s late seminars on the topic of parrhesia from the perspective of the work of nearly a decade earlier on the topics of disciplinary power and biopower, one is struck by the seemingly irreconcilable positions he adopts in these two periods on the topic of ‘truth’ [la vérité]. his 1983 Berkeley seminar places considerable emphasis on the courage of the parrhesi...

In this paper we investigate the logic of speech acts and groundedness. A piece of information is grounded for a group of agents if it is publicly expressed and established by all agents of the group. Our concept of groundedness is founded on the expression of the sincerity condition of speech act theory. We formalize groundedness within an extended BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) logic where b...