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Attribution of consciousness to non-human animals: insights from AI and multidimensional frameworks. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Chiarella SG   +4 more
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HIV, Risky Behavior and Ethno-linguistic Heterogeneity [PDF]

open access: yesJahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012
Summary Ethno-linguistic heterogeneity is associated with indicators of development like civil society, trust, quality of institutions, economic performance and participation. Recently, it has been found to be favorable for optimizing agents who want to engage in risky sexual behavior as they can select partners outside their own ...
Miron Tequame
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A Linguistic Approach to Influencing Decision Behavior

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2012
In this paper, we present a number of approaches using fuzzy set theory to influence decision-making behavior, which is a type of human persuasion. We couch the approach as the process to draw a conclusion “V is P” given “V is F,” where P is a fuzzy subset of F representing some linguistic value for V that corresponds to a perception of the world V is ...
Frederick E. Petry, Ronald R. Yager
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Linguistic behavior and religious activity

Language & Communication, 2015
Abstract Studies have found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah exhibit significant linguistic differences. We break this down further by investigating whether there are also differences between Mormons who actively participate in the religion and those who do not, and find significant differences with a medium or larger effect size between the ...
Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie
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Reflections on the Intentionality of Linguistic Behavior

2003
The precise role of human intentions (in the narrow sense of the aims and goals of an acting person) in verbal action, or in action in general, remains a contested issue in the present-day linguistic (or, more generally, human) sciences. In many branches of language research (especially the cognitively oriented ones) and language philosophy (in ...
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Two Arguments for Linguistic Behaviorism

The Psychological Record, 1969
The traditional behavioristic position that objectivity (agreement among independent observers) is not possible with subjective data (thoughts and feelings) is abandoned in favor of the position that subjective data are as objective as the language employed for their conceptualization.
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Integrational linguistics and the behavioral sciences

Language Sciences, 2011
Abstract This paper explores the connections between integrationism and behaviorism, namely their common emphasis on the functional interchange of behavior between speaker and audience. In addition, Skinner’s radical behaviorism is compared to some of Wittgenstein’s late ideas.
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