This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...

Recent events (WTC attacks, Southeast Asia Tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina, London bombings) have illustrated the need for accurate and timely situational awareness tools in emergency response. Developing effective situational awareness (SA) systems has the potential to radically improve decision support in crises by improving the accuracy and reliability of the information available to the decisio...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown significantly in popularity, accompanied by increased capacity and lower cost communications, overwhelming development technologies. At the same time, big data real-time analysis have taken on great importance been unprecedented interest sharing among citizens, public administrations other organisms, giving rise to what is known as Collaborative Things. Th...

Due to its origins in the literature on judgment and decision-making, context effects in marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other relevant context effects on choice. This paper broadens the scope of c...

Word learning research has shown that learners constrain the hypothesis space for word meanings by using multiple sources of information, such as cross-situational regularities of word-context co-occurrences or syntactic cues, like the number of arguments. These studies typically focus on word meaning development where these cues can be helpful but not necessary. As such, it sheds little light ...

I argue that the impact of context on organizational behavior is not sufficiently recognized or appreciated by researchers. I define context as situational opportunities and constraints that affect the occurrence and meaning of organizational behavior as well as functional relationships between variables, and I propose two levels of analysis for thinking about context—one grounded in journalist...

Although situational avoidance is viewed as the most disabling aspect of panic disorder, few studies have evaluated how dimensions of neurotic (i.e., neuroticism, behavioral inhibition) and extraverted (i.e., extraversion, behavioral activation) temperament may influence the presence and severity of agoraphobia. Using logistic regression and structural equation modeling, we examined the unique ...