M. Christen et al. (eds.), Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms, Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 32, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01369-5_13, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 It is commonly assumed that humans do not begin life with moral character or virtue. Most documented societies through history considered infants to be unformed persons, not y...

In this paper, we propose a convolutional deep network model which utilizes local and global context through feature fusion to make human activity label predictions and achieve state-of-the-art performance on two different activity recognition datasets, the HICO and MPII Human Pose Dataset. We use Multiple Instance Learning to handle the lack of full person instance-label supervision and weight...

Human beings often observe other people's social interactions without being a part of them. Whereas the implications of some brain regions (e.g. amygdala) have been extensively examined, the implication of the precuneus remains yet to be determined. Here we examined the implication of the precuneus in third-person perspective of social interaction using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fM...

Three studies investigated conditions in which perceivers view dispositions and situations as interactive, rather than independent, causal forces when making judgments about another's personality. Study 1 showed that perceivers associated 5 common trait terms (e.g., friendly and shy) with characteristic if...then... (if situation a, then the person does x, but if situation b, then the person do...

This article brings together three current themes in organizational behavior: (1) a renewed interest in assessing person-situation interactional constructs, (2) the quantitative assessment of organizational culture, and (3) the application of "Q-sort," or template-matching, approaches to assessing person-situation interactions. Using longitudinal data from accountants and M.B.A. students and cr...

These experiments examined how social interactions with individuals who ostensibly have stereotype-relevant views affect the self-evaluations of stereotype targets. Participants believed they were going to interact, or actually interacted, with a person who ostensibly had stereotype-consistent or stereotype-inconsistent views about their social group. Consistent with shared reality theory, part...

To realize versatile real-time man-machine interactions based on understanding human intention and activities, we develop an active wearable vision sensor. The sensor consists of the detector of person’s viewing lines and two active cameras. First, we establish a method for calibrating the sensor so that it can detect person’s blink points accurately even in a real situation such that the depth...

Recent Monte Carlo research (Lance, Woehr, & Meade, 2007) has questioned the primary analytical tool used to assess the construct-related validity of assessment center post-exercise dimension ratings (PEDRs) – a confirmatory factor analysis of a multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrix. By utilizing a hybrid of Monte Carlo data generation and univariate generalizability theory, we examined three pr...

Three studies investigated conditions in which perceivers view dispositions and situations as interactive, rather than independent, causal forces when making judgments about another’s personality. Study 1 showed that perceivers associated 5 common trait terms (e.g., friendly and shy) with characteristic if . . . then . . . (if situation a, then the person does x, but if situation b, then the pe...