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In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors
- AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 47
, 1992
"... How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages and proc ..."
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How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages
Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval
- SIAM REVIEW
, 1995
"... Currently, most approaches to retrieving textual materials from scientific databases depend on a lexical match between words in users' requests and those in or assigned to documents in a database. Because of the tremendous diversity in the words people use to describe the same document, lexical ..."
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Currently, most approaches to retrieving textual materials from scientific databases depend on a lexical match between words in users' requests and those in or assigned to documents in a database. Because of the tremendous diversity in the words people use to describe the same document
Culture in action: Symbols and strategies
- American Sociological Review
, 1986
"... Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit " of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action. " Two models of cultural influence are developed, for settle ..."
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, for settled and unsettled cultural periods. In settled periods, culture independently influences action, but only by providing resources from which people can construct diverse lines of action. In unsettled cultural periods, explicit ideologies directly govern action, but structural opportunities for action
Towards Sociable Robots
- ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
, 2002
"... This paper explores the topic of social robots -- the class of robots that people anthropomorphize in order to interact with them. From the diverse and growing number of applications for such robots, a few distinct modes of interaction are beginning to emerge. We distinguish four such classes: socia ..."
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This paper explores the topic of social robots -- the class of robots that people anthropomorphize in order to interact with them. From the diverse and growing number of applications for such robots, a few distinct modes of interaction are beginning to emerge. We distinguish four such classes
Social stigma and self-esteem: The selfprotective properties of stigma
- Psychological Review
, 1989
"... Although several psychological theories predict that members of stigmatized groups should have low global self-esteem, empirical research typically does not support this prediction. It is proposed here that this discrepancy may be explained by considering the ways in which membership in a stigmatize ..."
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evidence has shown that many social groups or categories of people are stigmatized in our society. People hold generally negative stereotypes about such diverse
Cities and the creative class.
- City and Community,
, 2003
"... Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversity and difference and as fonts for creativity and innovation. Yet until recently, social scientists con ..."
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Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversity and difference and as fonts for creativity and innovation. Yet until recently, social scientists
A design theory for systems that support emergent knowledge processes
, 2000
"... This paper presents a design theory for systems to support what we call “emergent knowledge processes.” Emergent knowledge processes are business processes that involve intellectual activities, expert knowledge, and diverse people in unstructured and unpredictable combinations. Examples of emergent ..."
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This paper presents a design theory for systems to support what we call “emergent knowledge processes.” Emergent knowledge processes are business processes that involve intellectual activities, expert knowledge, and diverse people in unstructured and unpredictable combinations. Examples of emergent
Automatic vigilance: the attention-grabbing power of negative social information
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 1991
"... One of the functions of automatic stimulus evaluation is to direct attention toward events that may have undesirable consequences for the perceiver's well-being. To test whether attentional resources are automatically directed away from an attended task to undesirable stimuli, Ss named the colo ..."
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fundamental asymmetry in people's evaluations of gains and losses, of joy and pain, and of positive and negative events. A considerable body of research, in fields as diverse as decision making, impression formation, and emotional com-munication, has shown that people exhibit loss aversion (Kah
Separating key management from file system security
, 1999
"... No secure network file system has ever grown to span the In-ternet. Existing systems all lack adequate key management for security at a global scale. Given the diversity of the In-ternet, any particular mechanism a file system employs to manage keys will fail to support many types of use. We propose ..."
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No secure network file system has ever grown to span the In-ternet. Existing systems all lack adequate key management for security at a global scale. Given the diversity of the In-ternet, any particular mechanism a file system employs to manage keys will fail to support many types of use. We
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars
- Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes
, 1999
"... Alfie Kohn challenges our reliance on carrot-and-stick psychology in Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes. This is an intriguing indictment of rewards at work, at school, and at home. "Do this and you'll get that, " (Koh ..."
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myth in his groundbreaking work demonstrating that while manipulating people with incentives seems to work in the short run, it is a strategy that eventually fails and ultimately does lasting harm. He draws from hundreds of studies of a diverse group of students, workers and children and demonstrates
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