The present paper reports the results of a fMRI subtraction study of the pattern of cortical activation induced by an ideational praxis paradigm in six normal right-handed subjects. The control task consisted of a sequence of complex meaningless hand movements. A complete study was done for each hand in each subject. The left intraparietal sulcus was the only structure activated in all subjects...

A study was conducted to examine the effects of nation-states’ political institutions on state relations. War-fighting and selection-effects explanation were compared to explain why democracies were more likely to win wars. An analysis of all interstate wars between 1816 and 1982 revealed that democracies that initiate wars often win them. Results also suggest that domestic political structure ...

Global fits to precision cosmological data which show that there is a dark energy component comprising about 2/3 of the total cosmological energy also hint that a dark energy with w = P/ρ < −1 is viable, even favored. Here we discuss implications of such a surprising w, including whether it jeopardizes vacuum stability. It appears to be secure in microscopic processes, but why bulk dark energy ...

Investors significantly reduce their future returns by selecting mutual funds with higher fees, allured by higher past returns that do not predict future performance. This suboptimal behavior, which can roughly halve an investor’s retirement savings, is driven by two psychological factors. One factor is difficulty comprehending rate information, which is critical given that mutual fund fees and...

Among the creative thinking abilities that have been identified by Guilford and others (Guilford, 1957a; Wilson, Guilford, Christensen, & Lewis, 1954), fluency abilities are clearly the most accessible to objective measurement. Dealing as they do only with the quantitative aspect of creative thinking— how many ideas, solutions, and the like can be produced—they are perhaps not as central to the...

This paper provides a critique of IMP modeling and other schools of network analysis as captive of logocentric thought and colonized by modernist discourse, which relies upon the unchallenged assumptions of reason, rationalism and anthropocentric progress through scientism. IMP modeling is a welcome relief from narrower forms of economic rationalism in its attempted integration of social influe...