The population game literature builds upon an implicit model of player interaction, pairwise random matching, and three behavioral postulates: noisy decisionmaking, myopic decisionmaking, and the random arrival of choice opportunities (inertia or lock-in). By now the role of noise is understood, This paper investigates the role of the player interaction model and the other two behavioral postul...

This paper sought to replicate McDaniel, Psotka, Legree, Yost, and Weekley (2011). That research showed that situational judgment test scoring methods that control for elevation and scatter yield larger validities than those that do not. McDaniel et al. also showed that dropping mid-range items (items with mean scores near the midpoint of a Likert scale) resulted in higher validity. The current...

Consensually scored situational judgment tests using Likert scale response formats can be substantially improved with respect to validity, Black-White mean differences, resistance to faking, and test length. This improvement is achieved with two simple adjustments. The first adjustment is controlling for elevation and scatter (Cronbach & Gleser, 1953). This adjustment substantially improves ite...

We discuss how to control outputs from deep learning models of text corpora so as to create contemporary poetic works. We assess whether these controls are successful in the immediate sense of creating stylometric distinctiveness. The specific context is our piece The Character Thinks Ahead (2016/17); the potential applications are broad. Our recent piece The Character Thinks Ahead, is focused ...

Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and predominant setting in Americas, Book of Mormon contains several Matthean Lukan additions to Mark made Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Scholarly consensus biblical studies today is that Gospel was written circa 65 CE, then Matthew Luke were 70s–90s approximately, their anonymous authors both expanded contracted here or ...

The medieval eschatological tradition of the ‘15 Signs of the Last Days’ pays special attention to the anguish of animals. This attention seems unnecessary, as animals will not be judged, or resurrected, but only destroyed. Their unnecessary cries might be heard as the cry of life for itself, now useless to God and humans, and also as a reminder to humans of the richness of the worlded selves t...

A consumer health information system must be able to comprehend both expert and nonexpert medical vocabulary and to map between the two. We describe an ongoing project to create a new lexical database called Medical WordNet (MWN), consisting of medically relevant terms used by and intelligible to non-expert subjects and supplemented by a corpus of natural-language sentences that is designed to ...

An account of emotion must include categories and dimensions. Categories because humans categorize reality, and a person's categorization of their own state influences aspects of that state. Dimensions because humans are always in some state of Core Affect, which varies by degree along dimensions of valence (feeling good or bad) and activation (feeling lethargic or energized). In Psychological ...

This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel’s official language, is studied only in religious contexts. Results show that the girls use and prefer to...