We investigate the spatial Public Goods Game in the presence of fitness-driven and conformitydriven agents. This framework usually considers only the former type of agents, i.e., agents that tend to imitate the strategy of their fittest neighbors. However, whenever we study social systems, the evolution of a population might be affected also by social behaviors as conformism, stubbornness, altr...

Some measures of re l ig iosity, bel ief in an after l i fe , and bel ief in psychic phenomena were included in eight forced-choice ESP experiments. Seven of the experiments consisted of 40 trials of clairvoyance as a computer game and 40 trials of precognition in a paper-and-pencil test for each subject; and in one experiment there were 80 trials of clairvoyance. A combined measure of religios...

1. Lessons from the past Previous articles in this journal will have given the reader an idea of the state of the art in currently operational machine translation systems This article describes a system which is planned, and which it is hoped will be developed by all the Member States of the European Community acting together, within the framework of a single collaborative project. The motivati...

Previous analyses of Prolog as a programming language have adopted both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Additionally, the uniqueness of the language has elicited many subjective comments. The result is an inconsistent collection of often contradictory statements. Within this muddle, this paper attempts to outline a more consistent statement of the usefulness of Prolog as a programming l...

Both parapsychologists and skeptics have interests in investigating the nature of belief in the paranormal, albeit with somewhat different objectives in mind. Despite substantial variation across studies in the definition of the scope of paranormal belief, some degree of order can be imposed on the empirical literature by taking due account of the multidimensionality of paranormal belief. In th...

Although the number of homosexual alcoholic men and women has been estimatedto be proportionatelythree times greater than the number of alcoholics in the general population, their participation in Alcoholics Anonymous is not consistent with this proportional representation. It is proposed that their are a number of characteristics of A.A., as it is represented in meetings, which discourage part...

Seventy-five years of theory and research on personality differences between political liberals and conservatives has produced a long list of dispositions, traits, and behaviors. Applying a “Five Factor Model” framework to this yield, we find that two traits, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness, parsimoniously capture many of the ways in which individual differences underlying politica...

This paper summarizes the author's recently published findings about differences in people's work-related values among 50 countries. In view of these differences, ethnocentric management theories (those based on the value system of one particular country) have become untenable. This concept is illustrated for the fields of leadership, organization, and motivation. * A key issue for organization...

The subtexts of Shakespeare's plays often provide surprisingly accurate insights not only into the central themes of the plays, but also a greater understanding of the unifying elements. The subtexts from a representative sampling of plays from each of the major periods reveáis that such subtextual elements as repeated words, near synonyms and recurrent images are fairly accurate assessors of t...

Examining from a gender perspective religious education within a prominent branch of Dutch Protestantism, this article investigates the interplay between oppressive and emancipating educational forces. The so-called Neo-Calvinists--progressively minded, yet orthodox--sought successfully to update traditional Calvinism and keep it abreast with modern developments from circa 1870 onwards, notably...