Previous studies suggested that heuristics sometimes obstructed solving particular insight problems (e.g. Knoblich, 1999). Abe & Nakagawa (2008) took up the Cheater Detection Model (CDM: Cosmides, 1989) as an adaptive heuristic within social environment, and suggested that it has a negative influence on the ‘missing dollar’ riddle. In this study, we examined the same type of insight problem fro...

Location-based games entertain players usually by interactions at points of interest (POIs). Navigation between POIs often involve the use of either a physical or digital map, not taking advantage of the opportunity available to engage users in activities between POIs. The paper presents riddle solving as a navigational method for a location-based game. 10 families with 2-6 persons and at least...

Among the many genres of folklore, the riddle is the most amenable to semiotic inquiry. In short dialogue sequences, riddling includes verbal metaphors, interpretations, and their rejections or validations. The immediate succession of a message, a decoding, and a feedback condenses a process that extends over a longer span of time in the communication process of many other genres. Moreover, inh...

Drs. Riddle and Gerstein (1) suggest renaming the hemoglobin glycation index (HGI) to reflect the possibility that interindividual variation in HGI in the ACCORD trial could be an artifact of how blood glucose was measured. HGI is the difference between an individual’s observed HbA1c and a predicted HbA1c derived by inserting a time-matched blood glucose measurement into a regression equation d...

cited as: Edgley, M. L. et al. Genetic balancers (April 6, 2006), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.89.1, http://www.wormbook.org. Adapted from: Edgley, M., Baillie, D.L., Riddle, D.L., and Rose, A.M. (1995). Genetic Balancers. In Methods Cell Biol. aka C. elegans: Modern Biological Analysis of an Organism, H.F. Epstein and D.C. Shakes, eds. (San ...

TODAY, WE TAKE FOR GRANTED our knowledge about the six anterior pituitary hormones, their structure, function, and assays for measurement, and their central place in the regulation of critical body functions. However, younger generations of scientists may not understand the impact that their discovery and isolation had on the scientific community. In the 1920s, almost nothing was known about th...

Abstract This paper examines the regulatory gaps in protection of athletes’ gender rights sport. The regulation human sport is increasingly being scrutinised and at same time, societal parameters sex identity are shifting. Together, these current developments present a riddle when determining how to balance interests with non-conforming rights, who may not strictly fit into binary categories De...

That thought experiments (TEs) are widely used across the sciences and social sciences poses a riddle for those who think that we can learn new facts only through observation and experimentation. The riddle can be expressed by the following dilemma. Either the TE provides genuine knowledge of new facts. But this would conflict with deeply held views about the sources of our knowledge and make i...