Abstract Attitudinal network graphs are signed where edges capture an expressed opinion; two vertices connected by edge can be agreeable (positive) or antagonistic (negative). A graph is called balanced if each of its cycles includes even number negative edges. Balance often characterized the frustration index finding a single convergent state consensus. In this paper, we propose to expand meas...

The main purpose of this empirical study was to investigate the effects blended learning on students’ attitude and critical thinking. Secondarily probe into teachers’ perceptions blending potentials in an underprivileged elementary classroom. A design conducted among 50 children from a fifth standard class government-run Indian school. Findings revealed significant difference students' towards ...

In many situations, people are unsure in their moral judgments. much recent philosophical literature, this kind of doubt has been analysed terms uncertainty one’s beliefs. Non-cognitivists, however, argue that judgments express a conative attitude, more akin to desire than belief. This paper presents scientifically informed reconciliation non-cognitivism and doubt. The central claim is attitudi...

This study examines the interactive effects of background factors and personality/attitudinal and perceived environmental dimensions on adolescent drug behavior. Data were collected during home interviews using a structured interview schedule. The sample consisted of 403 British West Indian black, American black, and white adolescents, ranging in age from 13 to 17. Results suggested that two pr...

The mother lode of criminal responsibility scholarship is a unitary theory of criminal excuses, that is, a persuasive normative account of why the criminal law adjudges actors to be blameless despite their having engaged in prohibited conduct. The law’s other criminal defenses do not readily lend themselves to unitary normative accounts or, if they do, they rest on normative accounts that are s...

Many recent experiments have used parallel Implicit Association Test (IAT) and selfreport measures of attitudes. These measures are sometimes strongly correlated. However, many of these studies find apparent dissociations in the form of (a) weak correlations between the two types of measures, (b) separation of their means on scales that should coincide if they assess the same construct, or (c) ...

The role of prosody in conveying affective meaning is complex. The complexity is reflected to some extent in the many labels used to describe ‘ways of speaking’ that could generally be described as affectively coloured. The search for prosodic correlates of emotional speech, however, is more successful for some labels than for others. I argue that some labels refer not to the affective prosody ...