conclusions even though the osgt is an effective technique for inculcating an optimistic attribution style in delinquent boys, this important method needs to be continually implemented in their education. results the results showed that the osgt changed the attributional styles of delinquent boys from pessimistic to optimistic. also, the follow up study showed that the effect on the delinquent ...

Th e present study addresses one of the theoretical problems of computer-assisted authorship attribution, namely the question which traceable features of language can betray authorial uniqueness (a stylistic fi ngerprint) of literary texts. A number of recent approaches show that apart from lexical measures — especially those relying on the frequencies of the most frequent words — also some oth...

Authorship attribution is the task of deciding who wrote a particular document. Several attribution approaches have been proposed in recent research, but none of these approaches is particularly satisfactory; some of them are ad hoc and most have defects in terms of scalability, effectiveness, and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a principled approach motivated from information theory to i...

Program authorship attribution—identifying a programmer based on stylistic characteristics of code—has practical implications for detecting software theft, digital forensics, and malware analysis. Authorship attribution is challenging in these domains where usually only binary code is available; existing source code-based approaches to attribution have left unclear whether and to what extent pr...

The present research is intended to find out whether individuals with analytic or holistic thought have different attribution processes. Cross-cultural research has suggested that East Asians, who tend to have a holistic thought pattern, differ in cognitive process from Westerners, who tend to engage in analytic thought. However, studies that found cultural difference in attribution process may...

It is a truism of literature that certain authors have a highly recognizable style. The concept of style underlies the authorship attribution techniques that have been applied to tasks such as identifying which of several authors wrote a particular news article. In this paper, we explore whether the works of authors of classic literature can be correctly identified with either of two approaches...

This study attempts to examine the relation of forgiveness, and attribution style in addiction prone and non-prone individuals. Population is all undergraduate students of Azad university of Zahedan over 2013-2014. Sample is 300 people that selected based on Multi-stage cluster sampling. This study used Seligman Attribution Style Questionnaire, addiction acknowledgement scale (Weed et al) and H...