This paper studies a dynamic information acquisition problem within a regulation framework. Each period, the agent (he) would like to undertake a new project, which may cause social harm. He can acquire costly information about the type of the projects by self-monitoring, but the efforts spent on self-monitoring are only observed by him. Each period, the regulator (she) decides whether to ask t...

TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH ON POSSIBLE SELVES AND THE ‘MISSING MALES’ PROBLEM IN CHORAL MUSIC Music education researchers have a lengthy history of examining reasons why individuals seek participation in musical activities. Within that history, however, the concept of ‘possible selves’ (Markus & Nurius, 1986) has received little attention until recently. In the broadest terms, possible selves are ...

The number of countries that censor and monitor their citizens’ use of the Internet is increasing. While it is no secret that China and Iran censor the Internet, at least 25 countries, including Pakistan, Ethiopia, Thailand and Uzbekistan, also have technical filtering regimes in place. Some of the technology is even exported by western companies: search engines, blog hosting providers and emai...

This study compared pilot situation awareness across three traffic management concepts that varied traffic separation responsibility between the pilots, air-traffic controllers, and an automation system. In Concept 1, the flight deck was equipped with conflict resolution tools that enable them to perform the tasks of weather avoidance and self-separation from surrounding traffic. In Concept 2, ...

The present research explores the relationships between newspaper circulation size (small vs. large), blog post focus (national vs. local/state), and blog post topic (political vs. government) and whether reporters who blog produce posts that break with journalistic routines or include references to the author. Analysis of 960 blog posts from nine newspapers suggests that smaller newspapers wer...

Title of Dissertation: THE INTERACTION OF PEER INFLUENCE AND SELF-PRESENTATION IN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION Raamses Paul Rider, Ph.D., 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Harold Sigall, Department of Psychology This research examined alcohol use among college students from a socialpsychological perspective. I investigated two factors, not yet paired together in prior research, ...

The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from three secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at five time points from Grade 7 to Grade 9 identified four groups of students: bullies (9.8%), victims (3.0%), bullyvictims (9.4%), and...