A study of the ratings of aggressive behavior was based on a theoretical model of the attribution process. The ratings were based on four separate text versions. The subjects (the raters) were 28 Swedish adults studying Education at the University of Umeå. A 2 x 2 x 2 (Intent No intent x Reason No reason x Harm No harm) analysis of variance was performed separately on each text version. The res...

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In February 2010, former Director of the National Security Agency Mike McConnell wrote, “We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the source of attacks with a trail of evidence that can support diplomatic, military and legal options — and we must be able to do this in milliseconds. More specifically, we need to reengineer the Internet to m...

This paper shows how to decompose the dollar profit earned from an option into two basic components: ¶ mispricing of the option relative to the asset at the time of purchase, and · profit from subsequent fortuitous changes or mispricing of the underlying asset. This separation hinges on measuring the “true relative value” of the option from its realized payoff. The payoff from any one option ha...

This paper presents a novel task of cross-language authorship attribution (CLAA), an extension of authorship attribution task to multilingual settings: given data labelled with authors in language X , the objective is to determine the author of a document written in language Y , where X 6= Y . We propose a number of cross-language stylometric features for the task of CLAA, such as those based o...

I suspected that there were some members of the live audience who were somewhat apprehensive about sitting through the morning’s physics lectures. After all, there were three guys there to talk about one minus sign. If it were just two people and a plus sign, , one could talk about the and the other about the –. However, to my mind, this year’s awards represent or symbolize not just a minus sig...

Attribution theory has long enjoyed a prominent role in social psychological research, yet religious influences on attribution have not been well studied. We theorized and tested the hypothesis that Protestants would endorse internal attributions to a greater extent than Catholics, because Protestantism focuses on the inward condition of the soul. In Study 1, Protestants made more internal, but...

attribution theory is one of the psychological dynamic theories that explainsand describes people's perception of facts. therefore, the aim of this research wasto study success and failure attributions in athletes and coaches. the population ofthis study consisted of athletes and coaches of national teams (elite) and clubteams (sub–elite) in swimming, badminton, karate, taekwondo, table te...