Three experiments were conducted to test the robustness and explanations of the Non-Selective Superiority Bias (NSSB), whereby any randomly selected item from a positive category is rated more favorably when compared with a cohesive group of other exemplars from the same category. Having participants rank-order all exemplars prior to making a direct comparative rating did not reduce the NSSB (E...

Analysis of the statistics of natural scene features at observers' fixations can help us understand the mechanism of fixation selection and visual attention of the human vision system. Previous studies revealed that several low-level luminance features at fixations are statistically different from those at randomly selected locations. In our study, we conducted eye tracking experiments on natur...

Observations of aggressive interactions in boys' laboratory play groups were used to evaluate the relative importance of relational and individual factors in accounting for aggressive acts. A classroom peer-rating method for identifying mutually aggressive dyads was validated in 11 5-session play groups, composed of 2 mutually aggressive boys and 4 randomly selected male classmates from 11 pred...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an adventure camp program on the selfconcept of adolescents with behavioral problems. Subjects in the study included 61 randomly selected male and female adolescents with behavioral problems ranging in age from 9 to 17 years. The treatment group of 31 adolescents was randomly selected from a population (n=85) of behavioral problem adolesce...

We introduce a new model of correlated randomly growing graphs and study the fundamental questions detecting correlation estimating aspects structure. The is simple starts with any graphs, such as uniform attachment (UA) or preferential (PA). Given model, pair (G1,G2) grown in two stages: until time t⋆ they are together (i.e., G1=G2), after which grow independently according to underlying growt...