Black legal theorists often believe White Americans see Black judges as incapable of
deciding racial issues fairly. Using a survey experiment, we examine this by studying
perceptions of Black and White judges’ fairness through racial threat and group consciousness. Results...
Difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods have become common study designs for evaluating the effects of policy changes, including health policies. They also have potential for providing real-world effectiveness and safety evidence in pharmacoepidemiology. To effectively add to the toolkit of...
Evolutionary robotics allows biologists to test hypotheses about extinct animals. In our case, we modeled some of the first vertebrates, jawless fishes, in order to study the evolution of the trait after which vertebrates are named: vertebrae. …
The following paper describes a steady-state model of concurrent choice, termed the active time model (ATM). ATM is derived from maximization principles and is characterized by a semi-Markov process. The model proposes that the controlling stimulus in concurrent variable- interval...
This article examines a famous 1906 event that occurred when a con man dressed in a captain's uniform commandeered two small contingents of soldiers in Berlin and took them to nearby Köpenick, where he proceeded to arrest the city’s mayor...
In light of Wilhelm II’s well-known predilection for military uniforms and displays, many of his contemporaries regarded him as a real-life version of the titular figure in Hans Christian Andersen’s fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” This essay uses the concept...
Authored by Debra Meloy Elmegreen, Bruce G. Elmegreen and 53 others
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