Regrettable Indifference

Identifying Regrettable Messages from Tweets

Inappropriate tweets may cause severe damages on the authors’ reputation or privacy. However, many users do not realize the potential damages when publishing such tweets. Published tweets have lasting effects that may not be completely eliminated by simple deletion, because other users may have read them or third-party tweet analysis platforms have cached them. In this paper, we study the probl...

Ignorance and Indifference*

The epistemic state of complete ignorance is not a probability distribution. In it, we assign the same, unique, ignorance degree of belief to any contingent outcome and each of its contingent, disjunctive parts. That this is the appropriate way to represent complete ignorance is established by two instruments, each individually strong enough to identify this state. They are the principle of ind...

Envelopes and Indifference

On material frame-indifference

Alcohol Outcome Expectancies and Regrettable Drinking-Related Social Behaviors.

AIMS Research has shown that alcohol outcome expectancies are predictive of heavy alcohol consumption, which can lead to risky behavior. The purpose of the present study was to assess the incidence of various low-risk social behaviors while drinking among college students. Such social behaviors may later be regretted (referred to as regrettable social behaviors) and include electronic and in-pe...