More than Just a Different Face? Judicial Diversity and Decision-making

More Than Just Another Pretty Face: Embodied Conversational Interface Agents

Introduction Both animals and humans manifest social qualities. Dogs recognize dominance and submission, stand corrected by their superiors, demonstrate consistent personalities, and so forth. On the other hand, only humans communicate using language, and carry on conversations with one another. And the skills of conversation have developed in humans in such a way as to exploit all of the uniqu...

Intuitive decision-making amongst leaders: More than just shooting from the hip

It may sound like heresy, but making the ‘fuzzy’ discipline of management even fuzzier is paying dividends for business leaders. Indeed, an increasing number of CEOs and senior managers are now questioning the conventional wisdom that decision-making should be strictly analytical – they have found that sometimes it should be intuitive. This article discusses the latest findings in executive dec...

More than just vanilla.

Gender, Critical Mass, and Judicial Decision Making

We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to the U.S. federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest themselves in the decision-making proclivities of male and female judges, contingent on the existence of a critical mass of female judges at a court point (i.e., each city in which a district court is located). Our result...

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....