ahmad matar – iraqi satirical poet – attempted to save the arabic governments from imperialistic yoke who tried to arrogate nations’ freedom. his poetic language has sensible characteristics which the poet applies them in order to invite people to freedom and liberty. norm breaking is one of his poetry’s features. the present article tries to survey the vocal norm breaking – including rhyme, rh...

Norms have a strong influence on human social interactions, but the emotions and actions associated with norm-breaking events have not been systematically studied. We asked subjects to imagine themselves in a conflict situation and then to report how they would feel, how they would act, and how they would imagine the feelings and actions of their opponent. By altering the fictional scenario tha...

It shown that when one of the components of a product channel is entanglement breaking, the output state with maximal p-norm is always a product state. This result complements Shor’s theorem that both minimal entropy and Holevo capacity are additive for entanglement breaking channels. It is also shown how Shor’s results can be recovered from the p-norm results by considering their behavior for ...

In experimental games, we observe the following phenomena: (1) many subjects cooperate contrary to their material interest, (2) they cooperate in a reciprocal manner, (3) subjects often punish those others who behave unkindly, and (4) previous history usually influences subjects’ choices. We propose a simple game-theoretical model to account for these and other experimental phenomena, and compa...

Norms, defined as generally accepted behaviour in societies without central authority (and thus distinguished from laws), are very powerful mechanism leading to coherent behaviour of the society members. This paper examines, within a simple numerical simulation, the various effects that may lead to norm formation and stability. The approach has been first used by Axelrod, who proposed two step ...