Folklore field research: Perpetuating process

Management Folklore and Management Science – on Portfolio Planning, Escalation Bias, and Such Research on Management Folklore

Management folklore sometimes leads to unprofitable decision making. Thus, studies of the value of such folklore should be of interest to managers, especially when they identify unprofitable procedures. I reviewed empirical research on scientific publishing and concluded that studies supporting management folklore are likely to be favorably reviewed for publication and to be cited. However, res...

Forty Years of the Institute of Folklore Research

Transgenerational Inheritance: Perpetuating RNAi.

Reversible changes in gene expression independent of the genetic code can be transmitted from one generation to the next via poorly understood mechanisms. In worms, a histone-modifying enzyme is necessary to keep small RNA-guided transgenerational gene silencing in check.

Perpetuating evolutionary emergence

Perpetuating evolutionary emergence is the key to artificially evolving increasingly complex systems. In order to generate complex entities with adaptive behaviors beyond our manual design capability, longterm incremental evolution with continuing emergence is called for. Purely artificial selection models, such as traditional genetic algorithms, are argued to be fundamentally inadequate for th...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel