Research on perception and cognition suggests that whereas East Asians view the world holistically, attending to the entire field and relations among objects, Westerners view the ...
We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive (MCI) cognitiv...
Ara Norenzayan, Scott Atran, Jason Faulkner, Mark ...
We study human decision making in a simple forced-choice task that manipulates the frequency and accuracy of available information. Empirically, we find that people make decisions...
We consider the problem of permutation reconstruction, which is a variant of graph reconstruction. Given a permutation p of length n, we delete k of its entries in each possible w...
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP addre...