Abstract Crystallization of granular assemblies has broad implications for rapid and scalable creation architected materials with applications ranging from structural to microarchitected battery electrodes. While significant advances have been made in understanding colloidal self‐assembly at nano micro scale, the governing mechanisms organization dry hard spheres remain unclear. Here, we invest...

We discovered that the distribution of dividends in Korean horse races follows a power law. A simple model of betting is proposed, which reproduces the observed distribution. The model provides a mechanism to arrive at the true underlying winning probabilities, which are initially unknown, in a self-organized collective fashion, through the dynamic process of betting.

There is considerable agreement that threatening people’s beliefs may trigger compensatory activity designed to reaffirm the beliefs that have been challenged. Disagreement reigns, however, regarding the nature of the mechanism that underlies such compensatory activity. We propose that the desire for coherence that motivates self-verification processes underlies these processes. For example, re...

This study examined the temporal course of self–forgiveness using 8 waves of data collected from 148 participants. Self–forgiveness increased linearly over time, and fluctuations in 6 time–varying covariates were related to changes in self–forgiveness beyond those accounted for by the self–forgiveness trajectory. Decreases in guilt, perceived transgression severity, and conciliatory behavior to...

Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level of entrepreneurial activity varies with age. Using a sample of 2566 respondents from 27 European countries we show that entrepreneurial activity increases a...