The study described here investigates the perceived emotional content of “affect bursts” for German. Affect bursts are defined as short emotional non-speech expressions interrupting speech. This study shows that affect bursts, presented without context, can convey a clearly identifiable emotional meaning. Affect bursts expressing ten emotions were produced by actors. After a pre-selection proce...

I run a series of laboratory experiments to estimate and describe the extent to which an individual's charitable donation to one cause displaces his or her giving to another cause. The experiments also investigate motivations for giving, including the simple warm-glow and public-goods models, and the desire for in uence, reputation, and normalizing behavior. In the rst wave of experiments I all...

This essay reports on some experiments designed to study two candidate electoral competition when voters are 'retrospective' voters. The experiments consist of a sequence of elections in which subjects play the part of both voters and candidates. In each election the incumbent adopts a policy position in a one-dimensional policy space, and voters are paid (on the basis of single peaked utility ...

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel model of computation has been used for the architecture independent design and analysis of parallel algorithms whose performance is expressed not only in terms of problem size n but also in terms of parallel machine properties. In this paper the performance of implementations of deterministic and randomized BSP sorting algorithms is examined. The randomized algorit...

We present an experimental study of three school choice mechanisms. The Boston mechanism is influential in practice, while the two alternative mechanisms, the Gale-Shapley and Top Trading Cycles mechanisms, have superior theoretical properties in terms of incentives and efficiency. Consistent with theory, this study indicates a high preference manipulation rate under the Boston mechanism. As a ...

compound 3, 3'-methylene-bis-4, 4'-oxycoumarin had remarkable anticoagulant properties. This compound was designated as 'Dicoumarol'. The drug is effective after oral administration in contradistinction to 'Heparin', but takes a longer time to act and its action also persists for a very much longer time than that of 'Heparin'. To increase the absorption rate of 'Dicoumarol' and thereby quicken ...

Experimental study of the BNL Electron Beam Test Stand (EBTS), which is a prototype of the Relativistic Hea@ Ion Collider (RHIC) Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS), is currently underway. The basic physics and engineering aspects of a high current EBIS implemented in EBTS are outlined and construction of its main systems is presented. Efficient transmission of a 10 A electron beam through the ion ...

Ellsberg’s experiment is extended to study the association between ambiguity aversion and violation of reduction of compound lotteries. It is shown that the two phenomena are strongly associated. Further analysis reveals two di¤erent forms of association, which correspond to alternative theoretical models that account for ambiguity attitudes. JEL Classi…cation: D81, C91.

Realists in international relations and realistic conflict theorists in social psychology argue that the perception of threat in intergroup conflict is a function of power asymmetries between groups. In contrast, social constructivists and social identity theorists argue that a shared sense of identity can reduce perceptions of intergroup threat. In this article, we test these competing argumen...