In this paper the authors investigate critical phase transition characteristic of collective action by considering the mechanisms of both rational utility and psychological threshold based on the Granovetter (1978)’s threshold model. Numeric simulation is used to observe the collective dynamics with consideration of both spatial factor and social network friendship density. The authors observe ...

In psychological research, conspiracy theories are often defined as explanations of events involving the hidden action a malevolent group. Such definition raises false negative problem, it does not capture that about events. It also positive problem because categorises any conspiracy-based explanation theory, even though distinguishing from other claims is at core many attempts to define this n...

In his acknowledgments (p. xii), the author, a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, attributes his conceptualization of linguistics to Joan Bybee (1989), Bruce Derwing (Derwing and Skousen, 1989), and Skousen (1989, 1992, 1995), and these influences are certainly evident in this volume. Eddington (henceforth E.) has amassed an impressive personal bibliography in the area of pho...

In the 20th century, a large number of psychological theories of intellectual styles were developed. Different reviews mention up to 71 theories of style. In the last 25 years, several suggestions as to how theories of styles may be divided into categories and fields of focus have been offered. Theorists and researchers disagree about the criteria on which categorizations should be based, and a...