Social scientists are increasingly interested in multilevel hypotheses, data, and statistical models as well as moderation or interactions among predictors. The result is a focus on hypotheses and tests of multilevel moderation within and across levels of analysis. Unfortunately, existing approaches to multilevel moderation have a variety of shortcomings, including conflated effects across leve...

Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...

Many of us believe that if some acts wrongly out culpably ignorance, they are morally blameworthy to degree. I offer a defense this view against the powerful "Liberal Challenge" position. My proceeds by arguing facts about given agent's quality will can play different explanatory role in larger theory blameworthiness and structure exculpation than is often assumed.

Statistical mediation and moderation analysis are widespread throughout the behavioral sciences. Increasingly, these methods are being integrated in the form of the analysis of ―mediated moderation‖ or ―moderated mediation,‖ or what Hayes and Preacher (in press) call conditional process modeling. In this paper, I offer a primer on some of the important concepts and methods in mediation analysis...

We investigate the sources of changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2018. develop a general equilibrium model and calibrate it US data characterize contribution micro level productivity shocks, inter-sectoral linkages households' behavior aggregate volatility. Our results show that sectoral played an important role shaping asymmetries economy had different impact on over time. Moreove...

Online communities provide a social sphere for people to share information and knowledge. while information sharing is becoming a ubiquitous online phenomenon, how to ensure information quality or induce quality content remains a challenge because of the anonymity of commentators. this paper introduces moderation into reputation systems. we show that moderation directly affects strategic commen...

Studies that combine moderation and mediation are prevalent in basic and applied psychology research. Typically, these studies are framed in terms of moderated mediation or mediated moderation, both of which involve similar analytical approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches have important shortcomings that conceal the nature of the moderated and the mediated effects under investigation. Thi...