Rats are nicer than we think, at least to each other

Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?

Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)? Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former’s recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor do we find any effec...

We are very much like each other

Odd permutations are nicer than even ones

We give simple combinatorial proofs of some formulas for the number of factorizations of permutations in Sn as a product of two n-cycles, or of an n-cycle and an (n − 1)-cycle. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

We Think - Therefore We Are

Future developments in AI and robotics, brain interfaces, the Internet and virtual and augmented reality, will make possible new types of integration of humans and machines which will change how we think, learn and live. This paper uses a story about a future scenario involving systems of this kind to respond to crises and disasters to explore the possibilities of collective intelligence and co...

Are we as depressed as we think we are?

MEDICAL attitudes to psychotropic drugs in general and antidepressants in particular tend to be casual, and their effects seen as innocuous. Indeed if used as recommended by their manufacturers tricyclic antidepressants are not very effective drugs, although some of their side effects and interactions can be very serious. It has been stated that tricyclics generally have a margin of superiority...