Two correlational studies tested whether personality differences in empathy and perspective taking differentially relate to disapproval of unethical negotiation strategies, such as lies and bribes. Across both studies, empathy, but not perspective taking, discouraged attacking opponents’ networks, misrepresentation, inappropriate information gathering, and feigning emotions to manipulate oppone...

Perner (1991) has claimed that the linguistic structures and reasoning tasks mastered by 4-year-olds share a requirement to handle metarepresentation. In contrast, de Villiers (2000) has argued that they share a requirement to handle misrepresentation. In the current study, a correlation is observed between success on false belief tasks and the acquisition of relative clause sentences. This cor...

This letter identifies recent examples of misrepresentation of biological helical structures and expresses concern about the continuing indulgent attitude towards distortion of scientific facts. It also teaches a simple trick to distinguish right- from left-handedness.

Social computing researchers are using data from locationbased social networks (LBSN), e.g., “Check-in” traces, as approximations of human movement. Recent work has questioned the validity of this approach, showing large discrepancies between check-in data and actual user mobility. To further validate and understand such discrepancies, we perform a crowdsourced study of Foursquare users that se...

We study the complexity of electing a committee under several variants of the Chamberlin–Courant rule when the voters’ preferences are single-peaked on a tree. We first show that this problem is easy for the egalitarian, or “minimax” version of this problem, for arbitrary trees and misrepresentation functions. For the standard (utilitarian) version of this problem we provide an algorithm for an...

A fundamental requirement for the ability to monitor a SCADA system is a measure for ensuring that the monitoring process has an accurate picture of the current states of all sensors and actuators in the system. A misrepresentation of the state can be perpetrated either by sending misleading information (for example, by impersonating a sensor) or by preventing sensor measurements from reaching ...

Social networking is one of the most successful and popular tools to emerge from the Web 2.0 era. However, the increased interconnectivity and access to peoples’ personal lives and information has created a plethora of opportunities for the nefarious side of human nature to manifest. This paper categorizes and describes the major types of anti-social behavior and criminal activity that can aris...