We investigated the effects of unobtrusively primed constructs that were evocative of tolerance (e.g., tolerant, nonprejudiced) on subsequent task performances and found, contrary to our expectation, contrast effects in the judgment of an ambiguous behavioral description (Study 1 and 2). Suspecting that these results might be the outcome of social-comparison processes, in Study 3, we attempted ...

Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4 pp. 369–379 © 2010 American Library Association. All rights reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for nonprofit, educational use. When asked about a hypothetical book containing racist beliefs, do people support removing the book from their public library or not? The study examined responses to this question from surveys conducted from 197...

Mutualistic relationships among the different species are ubiquitous in nature. To prevent mutualism from slipping into antagonism, a host often invokes a “carrot and stick” approach towards symbionts with a stabilizing effect on their symbiosis. In open human societies, a mutualistic relationship arises when a native insider population attracts outsiders with benevolent incentives in hope that...

In this paper, a kind of fault-tolerant controller is proposed to study the stabilization problem of discrete-time Markovian jump systems, whose operation modes are not only partially-available but also unmatched. Here, such general properties of controller are modeled to be a controller having polytopic forms and uncertainties simultaneously. Based on the proposed model, concise conditions for...

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) employs wireless intervehicle communication to allow for automatic vehicle following at small intervehicle distances while guaranteeing string stability. Inherent to the CACC concept, however, is its vulnerability to communication impairments, among which latency of the wireless link, which compromise string stability and, hence, safety. To investigate...