People's own responses to a social stimulus (i.e. whether they endorse it or reject it) predict how they expect other people to respond (consensus estimates). This correlation has long been accepted as evidence for social projection. There has been little direct evidence, however, for the assumption that self-referent judgments shape judgments about others. Supporting the projection model, Expt...

I present a list of hints for writing speci cations I address high level issues like learning to abstract and low level issues like getting the details of logical expressions right This paper should be of interest not only to students of formal methods but also to their teachers This research is sponsored by the Wright Laboratory Aeronautical Systems Center Air Force Materiel Com mand USAF and ...

Endorsements designed to sell products are most effective when the endorser is a celebrity or an expert. If such endorsements contain misrepresentations, the endorser risks personal liability. For products related to health and safety, endorsements are subject to evaluation by reliable independent sources. In a number of high-profile cases, the Federal Trade Commission determined that endorsers...

In many computational social simulation models only cursory reference to the foundations of the agent cognition used is made and computational expenses let many modellers chose simplistic agent cognition architectures. Both choices run counter to expectations framed by scholars active in the domain of rich cognitive modelling that see agent reasoning as socially inherently contextualized. The M...

objective(s):emap-like protein 5 (eml5) is a new echinoderm microtubule-associated protein that is expressed in the central nervous system. the aim of this study was to investigate the expression profile of eml5 in the anterior temporal neocortex of patients presenting with intractable epilepsy (ie). materials and methods:western blot assays were performed to determine eml5 expression in 36 sur...

Abstract Political parties and civic organizations disseminate information to improve citizen decision making in local elections. Do citizens choose consume such and, if so, how does it affect their decisions? We conduct a survey experiment during real-world election that randomly assigns 1) political party endorsements, 2) voter guide, 3) no information, or 4) choice among these options. Respo...

Some social networks, such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate, allow user endorsements for specific skills. In this way, for each skill we get a directed graph where the nodes correspond to users’ profiles and the arcs represent endorsement relations. From the number and quality of the endorsements received, an authority score can be assigned to each profile. In this paper we propose an authority sco...

This paper describes a plan-recognition program built to explore the theory of endorsements (Cohen, 1983). The program evaluates alternative interpretations of user actions and reasons about which are the most likely explanation of the user's intentions. Uncertainty about the various alternatives was encoded in data structures called endorsements. The paper describes the workings of this progra...