Purpose – Reliability and political bias of mass media has been a controversial topic in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to propose and implement a methodology for fully automatic evaluation of the political tendency of the written media on the web, which does not rely on subjective human judgments. Design/methodology/approach – The underlying idea is to base the evaluation on full...

Size matters, particularly in demonstrations. A demonstration is in support of a movement or a cause. The movement has a number of sympathisers. The perceived number of sympathisers is important. If it is seen to be large, then it becomes easier to recruit others to the cause, and to persuade inactive sympathisers to join the demonstrations. Also, if the movement numbers are large then it is mo...

Scholars remain divided today over the origin and identity of the Wisdom Woman in Prov. 1-9. Many roads run back to her door through mythological, 2 sapiential, 3 apocalyptic, 4 rabbinic 5 and early Christian 6 circles of tradition. Attempts to pursue her prior to the book of Proverbs remain difficult, a problem for which at least four solutions have been proposed.

Article history: Received 24 January 2013 Received in revised form 25 September 2013 Accepted 30 October 2013 Available online 7 November 2013

We report on an experiment designed to explore whether allowing individuals to voice their anger prevents costly punishment. For this sake, we use an ultimatum minigame and distinguish two treatments: one in which responders can only accept or reject the offer, and the other in which they can also scold the proposer. By an unannounced successive two-person public goods game, with either the sam...

Simo Hosio University of Oulu Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 90570 Oulu, Finland [email protected] Jorge Goncalves University of Oulu Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 90570 Oulu, Finland [email protected] lu.fi Theodoros Anagnostopoulos University of Oulu Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 90570 Oulu, Finland [email protected] Vassilis Kostakos University of Oulu Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 90570 Oulu, Finland vassilis...