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Psychological analysis of language has repeatedly shown that an individual’s rate of mentioning 1st person singular pronouns predicts a wealth of important demographic and psychological factors. However, these analyses are performed out of context — syntactic and semantic — which may change the magnitude or even direction of such relationships. In this paper, we put “pronouns in their context”,...

This paper describes a monitoring system prototype dedicated to fall prevention for elderly. Our system designed in collaboration with physicians, aims at assessing the risk that a fall occurs, relying on the signature of the walk. The signature is defined as a set of relevant characteristics, computed from the observation through a video camera of the behavior at home of the elderly and can be...

This paper argues that a certain type of self-referential sentence falsifies the widespread assumption that a declarative sentence’s meaning is identical to its truth condition. It then argues that this problem cannot be assimilated to certain other problems that the assumption in question is independently known to face.

In strategic literature, the problems involved with the observation of the way organisations and their environment constitute each other has been neglected for far too long. The inherent circularity between organisations and their environment in defining strategies is often obscured by making either the environment or the capabilities of organisations the point reference in defining successful ...

In two studies we demonstrated that self-esteem has a negative relationship with schadenfreude toward a high achiever and that this relationship was mediated by the self-threat evoked by this high achiever. Moreover, we showed that this indirect relationship was contingent on an opportunity to affirm the self. When no self-affirmation opportunity was available, low self-esteem participants expe...

The size and style of referencing for a large sample of 60 years of publications of the Cowles Foundation are examined. The influence of computerization is considered. Self-referencing is noted and some observations are made on the costs and distribution of research papers.