This article summarizes and synthesizes my several papers on attribution theory (Kelley, 1967, 1971, 1972). Lest the reader incorrectly conclude that these writings define attribution theory, note must be made of other statements of the theory. These include, most importantly, Fritz Heider's (1958) book, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which has played a central role in the orginatio...

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract The decrease of the concentration of ozone depleting substances (ODS) in the stratosphere over the past decade raises the question to what extent observed changes in strat...

Authorship attribution deals with identifying the authors of anonymous texts. Traditionally, research in this field has focused on formal texts, such as essays and novels, but recently more attention has been given to texts generated by on-line users, such as e-mails and blogs. Authorship attribution of such on-line texts is a more challenging task than traditional authorship attribution, becau...

The emergence of social media (networks, blogs, web forums) has given people numerous opportunities to share their personal stories, including details of their health. Although users mostly post under assumed nicknames, state-of-the-art text analysis techniques can combine texts from different media and use that linkage to identify private details of an individual‟s health. In this study we aim...

Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a given text. The main concern of this task is to define an appropriate characterization of documents that captures the writing style of authors. This paper proposes a new method for authorship attribution supported on the idea that a proper identification of authors must consider both stylistic and topic features of texts. This me...

Consumers and scholars show increasing interest in authenticity in products, services, performances, and places. As typically used, authenticity is an attribution that is socially constructed and appears in many domains of social life. The interest in authenticity presumes that its attribution conveys value and emerging evidence agrees. Authenticity, however, carries some very different meaning...

Child abuse poses significant challenges for scientists and practitioners. For one thing, the willful harming of an innocent child is a painful image that understandably evokes intense emotions. The resulting diversity of strongly held views about the nature of the problem and what to do about it can, and too often does, lead to polarization among professionals who share the common goal of resp...

We offer an alternative to the standard formalisation of attributed graphs. We propose to represent an attributed graph as a graph with a marked sub-graph, in which the sub-graph represents the data domain, rather than as a tuple of graph and algebra. This is a general construction which can be shown to preserve adhesiveness of categories; it has the advantage of uniformity and gives more flexi...

On the morning of July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico on the White Sands Proving Ground. The device was a plutonium implosion device similar to the device that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9 of that same year. Recently, with the enactment of US public law 111-140, the "Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act," scientists in the government and academia have been...