In this paper, we give a beginners guide to the practicality of using dual-quaternions to represent the rotations and translations in character-based hierarchies. Quaternions have proven themselves in many fields of science and computing as providing an unambiguous, un-cumbersome, computationally efficient method of representing rotational information. We hope after reading this paper the reade...

A.A. Lazakidou (ed.), Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration, Annals of Information Systems 15, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3634-8_3, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract We apply approaches from social epistemology and social psychology to the study of knowledge in online communities. We fi rst provide a descriptive analysis of knowledge behaviours informed by so...

There is much more involved in the nature/nurture debate than an abstract theoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of thetheoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of the debate leads logically to significantly different views of the social order and holds different implications for social policy. In this paper I shall argue that Boas’ Anthropol...

This is the beginning of a series discussing methodological approaches used in the social sciences. This article outlines the general problems and difficulties associated with a common method of statistical inference in psychology (my background) and other social science fields: null hypothesis significance testing (hereafter NHST). This introduction can serve as a starting point for researcher...

This article presents a short review of dual-process and dual-system theories from social and cognitive psychology and comments on their relevance for research on economic behavior. We view dual-process theories as a theoretical scaffolding which helps structure and interpret experimental results and can deliver important insights on human behavior in economic contexts. Dual-process ideas and c...

Dual-process and dual-system theories in both cognitive and social psychology have been subjected to a number of recently published criticisms. However, they have been attacked as a category, incorrectly assuming there is a generic version that applies to all. We identify and respond to 5 main lines of argument made by such critics. We agree that some of these arguments have force against some ...

Social media use in the workplace may simultaneously contribute to productive behaviors (taskoriented and relationship-building) as well as unproductive behaviors (deviance) at work. Building on channel expansion theory the authors examine the impact of using social media on these organizational behaviors. Using a sample of 220 working individuals they found that intensity of social media use c...

Neuroeconomics is a new, interdisciplinary field in which economics, psychology, computational science, and neuroscience converge to allow for examinations of the neural basis of reward-related decision making in social and nonsocial contexts. The aims of this paper are, first, to discuss recent advances in the use of neuroeconomic games to examine social decision making in children and adolesc...