System testing of a GUI-based application requires that test cases, consisting of sequences of user actions/events, be executed and the software’s output be verified. To enable automated re-testing, such test cases are increasingly being coded as low-level test scripts, to be replayed automatically using test harnesses. Whenever the GUI changes—widgets get moved around, windows get merged—some ...

A theory is presented to account for the development of habitual aggressive behavior during early childhood. It is argued that the aggressive child is one who has acquired aggressive scripts to guide behavior early in life. Once estahtihed these scripts become resistant to change and may even persist into adulthood. Aggressive scripts are acquired and maintained through both observational and e...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

In this study, we reflexively focus our gaze on the global shift toward emotionalisation of academic culture, taking perspective a university institution and its staff. We argue that emotional consumerism is fundamental to current condition teaching; it embedded in institutional agenda shapes faculty’s subjective experiences. Our ethnographic analysis reveals also understanding capitalism requi...