Introduction: Estimating the nonkinetic effects of irregular warfare (IW) actions on the population, such as those described in the U.S. Army counterinsurgency manual,1 is now incorporated into the analysis of IW war games. CogSim is an agent-based population attitude model developed at NRL as a prototype to predict coalition formation between several groups based on social science theories, na...

This study examines the link between social structural variables (gender, race, education, age, rural childhood), individual social psychology (altruism, self-interest, traditionality, and openness to change), and beliefs about the benefits of vegetarianism (for health, the environment, animals, and world hunger) and self-reported vegetarianism . Data from a random sample of 420 adult U.S . res...

*The original version of this paper was written for the Office of ASPER of the U.S. Department of Labor in 1975. This is a revision of ‘Unemployment insurance as a social insurance program’ presented at the ISPE Conference on Social Insurance held near Tokyo. Japan in May 1977. I would like to thank participants at this conference, M.A. Baily, G.S. Fields and the referees for helpful comments. ...