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What does your selfie say about you?

Selfies refer to self-portraits taken by oneself using a digital camera or a smartphone. They become increasingly popular in social media. However, little is known about how selfies reflect their owners’ personality traits and how people judge others’ personality from selfies. In this study, we examined the association between selfies and personality by measuring participants’ Big Five personal...

If Planning is About Anything , What is it About ?

Alongside Clem Tisdell’s prodigious scholarship, colleagues appreciate a quality he displays which characterises both economists and natural scientists. He sees the oddities in things – their incongruities, underside, gaps. Perusing the literature on regional and town planning, then, Professor Tisdell would notice articles with titles like the present one [1] and others suggesting uncertainty o...

Blocking a redundant cue: what does it say about preschoolers' causal competence?

The current study investigates the degree to which preschoolers can engage in causal inferences in a blocking paradigm, a paradigm in which a cue is consistently linked with a target, either alone (A-T) or paired with another cue (AB-T). Unlike previous blocking studies with preschoolers, we manipulated the causal structure of the events without changing the specific contingencies. In particula...

What Does a Grammar Formalism Say About a Language?

Over the last ten or fteen years there has been a shift in generative linguistics away from formalisms based on a procedural interpretation of grammars towards constraint based formalisms formalisms that de ne languages by specifying a set of constraints that characterize the set of well formed structures analyzing the strings in the language A natural extension of this trend is to de ne this s...