The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.

The last hundred years.

Eighty phenomena about the self: representation, evaluation, regulation, and change

We propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: representing, effecting, and changing. The representing self encompasses the ways in which people depict...

Eighty years after the first glimpse of the tubercle bacillus.