Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Opus: Research and Creativity at IPFWNot a member yet
12452 research outputs found
Sort by
The Contemporary Craft of Creating Characters Meets Today\u27s Cognitive Architectures: A Case Study in Expressivity.
No full textWhat does the contemporary craft of character design (by human authors), which is beyond the reach of foreseeable AI, and which isn\u27t powered by any stunning, speculative, AI-infused technology (immersive or otherwise), but is instead aided by tried-and-true “AI-less” software tools and immemorial techniques that are still routinely taught today, imply with respect to today\u27s computational cognitive architectures? This chapter narrows the scope of this large question, and argues that at present, perhaps only the cognitive architecture CLARION can represent and reason over knowledge at a level of logical expressivity sufficient to capture such characters, along with the robust modeling implied by contemporary story and character design
Social Conformity to Moral Dilemmas
No full textWe examined how conformity pressures influence judgments of moral dilemmas using an Asch-like paradigm with two accomplices. We found significant conformity effects in response to ambiguous and unambiguous moral dilemmas. These effects were moderated by confidence in personal judgments and perceived difficulty of the dilemmas
Interethnic prejudice as a function of identity and perceived conflict
No full textWe examined how ethnic identity, interethnic conflict, and prejudice are related among African Americans, Asian Americans, and White Americans. As expected, group identity only predicted prejudice expressed by Whites. Also, group identity mediated the relationship between perceived conflict and prejudice for Whites, but not for Asian Americans or African Americans
Why do people lie online? “Because everyone lies on the internet”
No full textIn this study, we examined online deception across four different online venues (i.e., social media, online dating, anonymous chat rooms, and sexual websites) in a sample of 272 U.S. adults (average age = 32.22 years) recruited through Amazon\u27s MTurk. Few of the participants (16%–32%) reported that they were or would be always honest across these sites, and even fewer (0–2%) suspected that others were always honest in these different online venues. In terms of types of lie, most (55–90%) believed that others were at least sometimes lying about their age, gender, activities, interests, and appearance across the four online venues. Ninety percent expected others to lie at least sometimes about their appearance (most expected lie type) and 55% expected others to lie at least sometimes about their gender (least expected lie type). However, although they expected people to lie more about their gender on sites with more anonymity and invisibility (like anonymous chat rooms and sexual websites), they expected equal rates of lies about appearance across all four websites, even on sites where users provide pictures and have shared acquaintances. Moreover, perceptions of others’ lying behavior on the venue were more significant predictors of own lying behavior than any of the personal characteristics we measured (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, extraversion, or internet addiction). The importance of mutuality was further reinforced by qualitative comments that showed that, in addition to lying to look more attractive or for privacy or protection concerns, some people lie “because everyone lies on the internet.
Epibiotic Diatoms Are Universally Present on All Sea Turtle Species
No full textThe macro-epibiotic communities of sea turtles have been subject to growing interest in recent years, yet their micro-epibiotic counterparts are almost entirely unknown. Here, we provide the first evidence that diatoms are epibionts for all seven extant species of sea turtle. Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, we inspected superficial carapace or skin samples from a single representative of each turtlespecies. We distinguished 18 diatom taxa from these seven individuals, with each sea turtle species hosting at least two diatom taxa. We recommend that future research is undertaken to confirm whether diatom communities vary between sea turtle species and whether these diatom taxa are facultative or obligate commensals
