Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people’s attitudes toward criminal justice policy. This paper examined attitudes toward gun control among a student population using both ideological (attribution styles) and instrumental perspectives (fear of crime), and then tested whether viewing the film Bowling for Columbine influenced those attitudes. The study empl...

OBJECTIVE This study uses the Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) to measure the causal thinking of 42 college students with diagnosed language-based learning disabilities (LD), ADHD, or co-occurring ADHD and LD. Attribution style, or explanatory style, is a term used to describe the tendencies of individuals to think that the causes of meaningful events are internal or external, global or sp...

The purpose of this paper is to identify attributive constructs of leadership and look at them from a critical perspective. First we will have a look on the self psychology according to Kohut (1996). Then leader role models created by subordinates are examined in detail. The theoretical basis for this empirical study is provided by attribution theory. Empirical role models for leaders are inves...

Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people’s attitudes toward criminal justice policy. This paper examined attitudes toward gun control among a student population using both ideological (attribution styles) and instrumental perspectives (fear of crime), and then tested whether viewing the film Bowling for Columbine influenced those attitudes. The study empl...

The Classification of Style in Fine-art Painting by Thomas Edward Lombardi Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Professional Studies in Computing August 2005 The computer science approaches to the classification of painting concentrate on problems of attribution. While this goal is certainly worthy of pursuit, there are other valid tasks related to th...

We present a method of authorship attribution and stylometry that exploits hierarchical information in phrase-structures. Contrary to much previous work in stylometry, we focus on content words rather than function words. Texts are parsed to obtain phrase-structures, and compared with texts to be analyzed. An efficient tree kernel method identifies common tree fragments among data of known auth...