Theory of mind refers to the ability to reason explicitly about unobservable mental content such as beliefs, desires, and intentions of others. People are known to make use of theory of mind, and even reason about what other people believe about their beliefs. Although it is unknown why such a higher-order theory of mind evolved in humans, exposure to mixed-motive situations may have facilitate...

Paul Power’s new book, Intent in Islamic Law, is a challenging and welcome addition to contemporary scholarship on Islamic law and comparative law. Powers examines the way in which the classical Islamic jurists thought about motive, how they thought motive could be identified, and how they thought an actor’s “intent” affected the “legality” of his actions. To accomplish his task, Powers compare...

We introduce explicit and implicit motives (i.e., achievement, affiliation, power, autonomy) into player experience research and situate them in existing theories of player motivation, personality, playstyle, and experience. Additionally, we conducted an experiment with 109 players in a social play situation and show that: 1. As expected, there are several correlations of playstyle, personality...

Flow is a state of optimal experience in which people get fully absorbed by a smoothly running activity that they pursue for the sake of it. Based on the classical approach to motivation, recent theoretical considerations suggest that incentives provided by the current activity that are congruent with one’s implicit motives will lead to flow. In a field experiment, we examined wall climbers’ ac...

in discussion relating to management, motivational factors are one of the major indicators and effective variables in organizational strategy and achieving job success. this study with the aim of cognition of the relation of some studied variables and the motive of achievement and success in cooperatives managers and determining the contribution of each factor by use of correlation and expost f...

Let F be a field, B a biquaternion F -algebra, L/F an étale quadratic extension, X the Weil transfer with respect to L/F of the Severi-Brauer variety of BL. We show that the Chow group of codimension 2 cycle classes on X is torsion-free. Our Chow groups are those with integral coefficients. The motives used in the proof are the Grothendieck Chow motives (still with the integral coefficients) as...

Employee Theft: Determinants of Motive and Proactive Solutions

Let E be a modular elliptic curve over a totally real cubic field. We have a cubic-triple product motive over Q constructed from E through multiplicative induction; it is of rank 8. We show that, under certain assumptions on E, the non-vanishing of the central critical value of the L-function attached to the motive implies that the dimension of the associated Bloch–Kato Selmer group is 0.

This study aims to explore the effects of participant motive, system integration, and value-added services on supply chain performance, and the role of E-Procurement Value as a mediating role. We collected data via a cross-industry questionnaire, with total 127 survey instruments available. We analyzed our data using regression model. The results show that participant motive, system integration...