There is broad consensus that features such as causality, mental states, and preventability are key inputs to moral judgments of blame. What is not clear is exactly how people process these inputs to arrive at such judgments. Three studies provide evidence that early judgments of whether or not a norm violation is intentional direct information processing along 1 of 2 tracks: if the violation i...

Today’s assessment of postsecondary academic skills must take into account their comprehensive nature and their multiple facets (Biggs, 1995; Sadler, 1989). In this regard, the use of rubric is more likely to provide qualitative, meaningful, and stable appraisals than are traditional scoring methods. The stability of assessment results, however, rests on the scale’s ability to lead to a common ...

The article argues for the use of a narrow stakeholder definition. It also adds one group –managers – that generally is not considered as being a stakeholder group. Here it is suggested that control of this stakeholder group holding the executive power should be a central topic for stakeholder theory. The article supports the common idea that the business discourse and the moral discourse shoul...

Please find a revised version of our manuscript entitled “Manuscript Recruitment challenges in clinical research. A case study and lessons learned” enclosed. These changes are explained in the manuscript file “Manuscript 3-changes with tracks”, while the revised manuscript (without “track changes”) is the file “Manuscript 3-changes with no tracks”. All the changes are marked with yellow in the ...

The SchwartzReport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE, it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives.

Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners' preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-defined subgroups that are distinct. Using correlation analysis, these distributions are used to test t...

This article presents an overview of the development and use of analytics in the context of education. Using Buckingham Shum's three levels of analytics, the authors present a critical analysis of current developments in the domain of learning analytics, and contrast the potential value of analytics research and development with real world educational implementation and practice. The article al...