Several studies have found effects of orthographically related masked nonword primes on lexical decisions to target words. These effects have been explained by the neighborhood characteristics of the target word (Forster, 1987), but the neighborhood characteristics of the prime in combination with the target are also found to be important (Hinton, Liversedge, & Underwood, 1998). In this study, ...

The local search with orthogonal design of experiment in its neighborhood determination (ODLS) outperforms the local search with the conventional neighborhood when the objective function includes noise. This models practical optimization problems that contains uncontrolled or unobserved variables. ODLS is robust and e cient since it shares all evaluations for direction determination of each var...

Is Crime Contagious? Understanding whether criminal behavior is “contagious” is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment to examine the extent to which lower localarea crime rates dec...

It is shown that a topographic product P, first introduced in nonlinear dynamics, is an appropriate measure of the preservation or violation of neighborhood relations. It is sensitive to large-scale violations of the neighborhood ordering, but does not account for neighborhood ordering distortions caused by varying areal magnification factors. A vanishing value of the topographic product indica...

PURPOSE Phonotactic probability or neighborhood density has predominately been defined through the use of gross distinctions (i.e., low vs. high). In the current studies, the authors examined the influence of finer changes in probability (Experiment 1) and density (Experiment 2) on word learning. METHOD The authors examined the full range of probability or density by sampling 5 nonwords from ...

Jalbert, Neath, Bireta, and Surprenant (2011) suggested that past demonstrations of the word length effect, the finding that words with fewer syllables are recalled better than words with more syllables, included a confound: The short words had more orthographic neighbors than the long words. The experiments reported here test two predictions that would follow if neighborhood size is a more imp...

I study the effects of neighborhoods on perceived inequality and preferences for redistribution. Using administrative data universe dwellings real estate transactions in Barcelona (Spain), construct a novel measure local — Local Neighborhood Gini (LNG). The LNG is based spatial distribution housing within city, independent boundaries, building-specific. elicit perceptions redistribution from an...