Fearing the Uncertain: A Causal Exploration of Self-Esteem, Self-Uncertainty, and Mortality Salience by Zachary P. Hohman Claremont Graduate University: 2012 Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) is one of the most influential social psychological theories of group behavior and intergroup relations. Early social identity research focused on many different group processes; however, the ...

Identifying the visual referent of a spoken word – that a particular insect is referred to by the word “bee” – requires both the ability to process and integrate multimodal input and the ability to reason under uncertainty. How do these tasks interact with one another? We introduce a task that allows us to examine how adults identify words under joint uncertainty in the auditory and visual moda...

Do different forms of uncertainty account for different procedural fairness effects? We hypothesized that general uncertainty accounts for fairness judgments, whereas belongingness uncertainty accounts for group identification. Experiment 1 manipulated general versus belongingness uncertainty. Participants in the general uncertainty condition regarded the procedures as fairer when they were gra...

Do different forms of uncertainty account for different procedural fairness effects? We hypothesized that general uncertainty accounts for fairness judgments, whereas belongingness uncertainty accounts for group identification. Experiment 1 manipulated general versus belongingness uncertainty. Participants in the general uncertainty condition regarded the procedures as fairer when they were gra...

In this paper, a notion of information-based complexity is introduced to characterize complexities of plant uncertainty sets in feedback control settings, and to understand relationships between identification and feedback control in dealing with uncertainty. This new complexity measure extends the Kolmogorov entropy to problems involving information acquisition (identification) and processing ...

Uncertainty text detection is important to many social-media-based applications since more and more users utilize social media platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc.) as information source to produce or derive interpretations based on them. However, existing uncertainty cues are ineffective in social media context because of its specific characteristics. In this paper, we propose a variant of...

In order to deal with the uncertainty of evidences mostly existing in pineapple disease identification system, a reasoning model based on evidence credibility factor was established. The uncertainty reasoning method is discussed, including: uncertain representation of knowledge, uncertain representation of rules, uncertain representation of multi-evidences and update of reasoning rules. The rea...

This article discusses the identification of nonlinear dynamic systems using multi-layer perceptrons (MLP). It focuses on both the structure uncertainty and parameter uncertainty which have been widely explored in the 10 literature of nonlinear system identification. The main contribution is that an integrated analytic framework is proposed for automated neural network structure selection, para...

The elastic properties of homogeneous, linear-elastic materials can be identified using resonant vibration analysis. Several sources of uncertainty contribute to the combined uncertainty of the measured values. This paper presents a method to handle uncertainty budgets in vibration based mixed numerical-experimental identification techniques. The presented method is evaluated with two numerical...