People often favor members of their own group, while discriminating against members of other groups. Such in-group favoritism has been shown to play an important role in human cooperation. However, in the face of changing conflicts and shifting alliances, it is essential for group identities to be flexible. Using the dictator game from behavioral economics, we demonstrate the remodeling of grou...

Against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential election, we examined the extent to which the American identity was implicitly and explicitly associated with Barack Obama compared to Tony Blair (Study 1), Hillary Clinton (Study 2), and John McCain (Studies 3 and 4). When conscious control was relatively limited and targets were categorized based on race, the American identity was less strongly as...

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar a política do Pivô para Ásia durante o governo de Barack Obama (2008-2016) por meio Realismo Neoclássico. Nesse sentido, analisa as percepções das lideranças com relação às ameaças ou oportunidades no Leste Asiático, bem pressões domésticas que influenciaram construção, implementação e condução pivô Obama. também afetou percepção países Asiático em a...

On March 23, 2010, US President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 20101,2 (Pub L. No. 111–148). At his side was Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old boy whose mother had passed away after she lost her health insurance. Several days later, President Obama signed a companion piece of legislation (Pub L. No. 111–152)3 that created an unprecedented health reform packag...

Lahar: Warehousing Markovian Streams Julia Maureen Letchner Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Magdalena Balazinska Computer Science and Engineering A huge amount of the world’s data is both sequential and low-level. Many applications consume higher-level information, such as words and sentences, that is inferred from low-level sequences such as raw audio signals using a model (e.g.,...

In 1960 one of the leading researchers American Presidency, professor and an adviser to a number US presidents Richard Neustadt formulated iconic formula where presidential power needed cooperate with Congress — persuade, negotiate compromise. But since political reality has changed so deeply, today only God gifted negotiator is able fulfill its in polarized Washington, D.C. A modern day presid...

The two leading candidates for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, had very similar policy positions and yet demonstrated appeal to disparate populations. Much has been written in the press about demographic differences between supporters of these candidates, but little is known about these groups’ psychological profiles. We used standard persona...

Images of Black Americans are becoming remarkably diverse, enabling Barack Obama to defy simple-minded stereotypes and succeed. Understood through the Stereotype Content Model’s demonstrably fundamental trait dimensions of perceived warmth and competence, images of Black Americans show three relevant patterns. Stereotyping by omission allows non-Blacks to accentuate the positive, excluding any ...