Empathy can be broadly defined as the ability to understand and respond appropriately to the affective states of others. In this paper, we present a scenario where a social robot acts as a chess companion for children, and describe our current efforts towards endowing such robot with empathic capabilities. A multimodal framework for modeling some of the user’s affective states that combines vis...

Any assessment of the status of women has to start from the social framework, social structures, cultural norms and value systems that influence social expectations regarding the behaviour of both men and women and determine women‟s roles and their position in society. A society is composed of many institutions and most important of them are the system of decent, family and kinship, marriage an...

S ince the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez (and their coauthors, including Anthony Atkinson and Gabriel Zucman) has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth inequality. The crucial point of departure for this revolution is the extensive data they have used, based largely on administrative tax records. Piketty’s (2014) Capital in the Twenty-First Century is...

Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals would like...

For a limited period of time, exchange students study abroad in a host culture they may know little about, leaving behind their culture, social networks and institutions. In the current study, students going to collectivist countries and students going to individualist countries were investigated, to test if the different characteristics of the host cultures would produce different patterns of ...

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We argue that this tran...

In the presence of non-Gaussian noise the least squares estimator for the parameters of a regression model can be suboptimal. Therefore, it is reasonable to consider other norms. Lp-norm estimators are a useful alternative, particularly when the residuals are heavy-tailed. We analyze the convergence properties of such estimators as a function of the number samples available for estimation. An a...

2 Structure of Norming hypergraph pairs 6 2.1 Two Hölder type inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2 Factorizable hypergraph pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3 Semi-norming hypergraph pairs that are not norming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.4 Some facts about Gowers norms . . . . . . . . . ....

We present here an approach to the fine structure of L based solely on elementary model—theoretic ideas, and illustrate its use in a proof of Global Square in L. We thereby avoid the Lévy hierarchy of formulas and the subtleties of master codes and projecta, introduced by Jensen [1972] in the original form of the theory. Our theory could appropriately be called “Hyperfine Structure Theory”, as ...

Several current debates in the epistemology of testimony are implicitly motivated by concerns about the reliability of rules for changing one’s beliefs in light of others’ claims. Call such rules testimonial norms (tns). To date, epistemologists have neither (i) characterized those features of communities that influence the reliability of tns, nor (ii) evaluated the reliability of tns as those ...