Falling victim to politics

Falling Victim to Wasps in the Air: A Fate Driven by Prey Flight Morphology?

In prey-predator systems where the interacting individuals are both fliers, the flight performance of both participants heavily influences the probability of success of the predator (the prey is captured) and of the prey (the predator is avoided). While the flight morphology (an estimate of flight performance) of predatory wasps has rarely been addressed as a factor that may contribute to expla...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Victim entitlement to behave selfishly.

Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall a time when their lives were unfair were more likely to refuse to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants who recalled a time when they were bored. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased intention...

To catch a falling robber

We consider a Cops-and-Robber game played on the subsets of an n-set. The robber starts at the full set; the cops start at the empty set. In each round, each cop moves up one level by gaining an element, and the robber moves down one level by discarding an element. The question is how many cops are needed to ensure catching the robber when the robber reaches the middle level. Alan Hill posed th...

The participating victim: complement to Malón.

After several publications in Spanish (e.g., Malón, 2001, 2003, 2004), Malón (2009a, 2009b, 2009c) has made some very significant contributions in English to the understanding of the sexuality of children. He is to be complimented for his meticulous and incisive examinations of victimology, which Money (1988) described as "science only in the etymology of its name" (p. 9), and of the resultant ...