Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects’ behavior. This has rekindled the question whether “fair” behavior is inspired by regard for others or is explained by external forces. To test for the importance of external pressure we compare a standard double blind dictator game to a treatment which provides no information about the sour...

During the last decade, protection of civilian and military operational platforms or vehicles against threats has been an issue of increased importance. A significant difference exists between warfare as viewed ten years ago and the nature of conflict today. More emphasis is being placed on short range positive ID, wide field of regard situational awareness and quick reaction times .The standar...

Research at the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Maryland has focussed on developing algorithms and systems that can look at humans and recognize their activities in near real-time. Our earlier implementation (the W system) while quite successful, was restricted to applications with a fixed camera. In this paper we present some recent work that removes this restriction. Such syst...

The authors conducted 2 studies of 9th-grade Israeli adolescents (169 in Study 1, 156 in Study 2) to compare the parenting practices of conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support using data from multiple reporters. Two socialization domains were studied: emotion control and academics. Results were consistent with the self-determination theory model of interna...