Three studies examined the hypothesis that system justification is negatively associated with collective protest against ingroup disadvantage. Effects of uncertainty salience, ingroup identification, and disruptive versus nondisruptive protest were also investigated. In Study 1, college students who were exposed to an uncertainty salience manipulation and who scored higher on system justificati...

Abstract. Inductive constellations are one-sided analogues of inductive categories which correspond to left restriction semigroups in a manner analogous to the correspondence between inverse semigroups and inductive groupoids. In this paper, we define the notions of the action and partial action of an inductive constellation on a set, before introducing the Szendrei expansion of an inductive co...

The book is truly an outstanding work giving a comprehensive exposition of a “generalized information theory” (GIT) having been developed in the early 1990s by Klir. The theory addresses the issue of information-based uncertainty and uncertainty-based information in their various manifestations. The book is organized in ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides the roots, motivations, framework, relevan...

Synthesis of hierarchical materials and product design is an emerging systems design paradigm which includes multi-scale (quantum to continuum level) material simulation and product analysis models, uncertainty in the models, and the propagation of this uncertainty through the model chain. In order to support integrated multiscale materials and product design under uncertainty, we propose an In...

Forming commitments about abstract influences that agents can exert on one another has shown promise in improving the tractability of multiagent coordination under uncertainty. We now extend this approach to domains with meta-level reward-model uncertainty. Intuitively, an agent may actually improve collective performance by forming a weaker commitment that allows more latitude to adapt its pol...

Shogren, J.F. and Crocker, T.D.. 1990. Adaptation and the option value of uncertain environmental resources. Ecol. Econ., 2 : 301-310. Just as ecology has benefited from the economic theory of optimizstion, economics can benefit from the ecological theory of adaptation. We examine the impact of short-term, non-genetic adaptive self-protection on the values individuals attach to uncertain prospe...

We argue that creating novel ventures consists of inductive analogical or metaphorical reasoning, which generates a platform for the creation and commercialization of novel ventures and facilitates the comprehension and justification of a venture. We argue that such inductive reasoning is shaped by two determinants (the applicability of prior entrepreneurial experience and the motivation to res...

Classical voting rules output a winning alternative (or a nonempty set of tied alternatives). Social welfare functions output a ranking over alternatives. There are many practical situations where we have to output a different structure than a winner or a ranking: for instance, a ranked or non-ranked set of k winning alternatives, or an ordered partition of alternatives. We define three classes...

How small-business owners assess uncertainty and risk in the macroeconomic environment to report optimism toward their business activity is an important research question for policymakers academics alike. Drawing on a monthly index variety of volatility (risk) trackers from January 1986 June 2017, line with expectation that dislike economic policy, policy may lower optimism. Business investment...

The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept of culture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin, the proposed view challenges both the idea of a core, essential self and the idea of a core, essential culture. In apparent cont...