Professor Mark Warner, FRS

Ruth Warner and Mark Schaller Stereotypes as Justifications of Prejudice

Three experiments investigate how stereotypes form as justifications for prejudice. The authors created novel content-free prejudices toward unfamiliar social groups using either subliminal (Experiment 1, N = 79) or supraliminal (Experiment 2, N = 105; Experiment 3, N = 130) affective conditioning and measured the consequent endorsement of stereotypes about the groups. Following the stereotype ...

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

Professor Gerald Westheimer FRS Australian optometry's pre-eminent vision scientist.

Introduction to Editorial Board Member: Professor Mark E. Davis

In this issue, we would like to introduce our Editorial Board Member, Prof. Mark E. Davis. Prof. Davis is the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a member of both the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is one of the rare select individuals elected to all three Un...

Coordination Capacity Paul Warner

We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what dependence can be established among the nodes given the communication constraints. Specifically, in a network with communication rates between the nodes, we ask what...