Some of the most important questions in the area of decision making under uncertainty deal with individual decisions to conform to or violate norms of behavior. The decision to conform to a norm is complicated by uncertainty about the norms others hold (Bohnet and Zeckhauser, 2004) and strong inclinations to behave collectively Milgram (1977). (For the present purpose, we adopt the broad defini...

Although some argue that acknowledgement sections should not form part of doctoral theses, others welcome such and are the opinion they reflect original personal contributions, constituting a neglected genre. Previous research on texts have focused more their linguistic characteristics as related to academic writing theses. The present study, however, inquired into from social support perspecti...

This article reconsiders narratives of the doctoral journey. It aims to contribute a small but growing body work which offers an irruption widely accepted notions learning as linear pathway with fixed end-point. The engages two Deleuze and Guattari’s many generative concepts: rhizome becoming. In doing so, it explores value attending multiple messy becomings that researchers experience, they ev...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama referred to long lines faced at the polls on November 6, 2012, and said, “we have to fix that.” Although it seems to have received relatively little national attention, Richland County, South Carolina, with more than 12% of its votes cast after polls were officially closed, was probably among the very worst counties in the nation for lines and ...

Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000-2007 period this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students contribute to about a third of the publication output of the province, with doctoral students in the natural and medical sciences being present in a higher proportion of papers p...