Abstract Taniwha are powerful water creatures in te ao Māori (the world/worldview). sometimes affect public works Aotearoa New Zealand: for example, consultation between government agencies and tangata whenua people of the land) about proposed roading developments results route being moved to avoid dwelling place a taniwha. Mainstream media responses have tended be hostile or mocking, as you mi...

Abstract International relations scholarship concerns dyads, yet standard modeling approaches fail to adequately capture the data generating process behind dyadic events and processes. As a result, they suffer from biased coefficients poorly calibrated errors. We show how regression-based approach, Additive Multiplicative Effects (AME) model, can be used account for inherent dependencies in gle...

We present a new mechanism for encouraging risk taking within organizations that relies on the provision of decision insurance to managers. Since insurance increases the likelihood of free riding, we also introduce a technique that mitigates this moral hazard by automatically identifying the social network around the manager and using it as a monitoring group. We show that three possible regime...

Prior research has revealed racial disparities in health outcomes and more health-compromising behaviors, such as smoking and drug abuse. It has been suggested that discrimination may contribute to such disparities, but the mechanisms through which this occurs are not well understood. Here, we examined whether the experience of discrimination affects acute physiological stress responses and inc...