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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"selfishness"”.
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Selfishness and Malice in Distributed Systems
… can impact the performance of such systems: selfishness and malice. Selfish players can reduce social welfare of games, and malicious nodes can disrupt networks. In this dissertation, we provide algorithms to address both of these issues. One approach to ameliorating selfishness in large …
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Modeling trustworthy behavior and limiting the impact of selfishness
"The major theme of the research in this dissertation is the modeling of selfish behavior and the mitigation of its effects. Game theory literature asserts that all agents behave with complete self-interest. However, this is at odds with empirical studies in behavioral economics which routinely …
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Cheating and Selfishness in Reproductive Interactions among Nest Associative Cyprinids
Mutualism is an understudied interaction in ecosystems throughout the world. Within the eastern United States, one fish-fish mutualism is the nest association between Nocomis and other cyprinids. I assessed the role of host parental care while testing for the selfish-herd effect. Additionally, I …
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Selfishness, altruism and utility in everyday two-person random interactions: effects of strong reciprocity, the common good and the costs of competition
… questions by reviewing Adam Smith’s concepts of selfishness (self-interest) and altruism (benevolence) in his books, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1790) to put this research into context. This literature review is …
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Black Skies and Gray Matter
… contentment. One trait all characters share is selfishness, but they are not aware of it, nor are they aware of how their selfishness affects others. These stories also explore the characters' philosophies and growth (or stagnation) through how they deal with alienation, loneliness, social …
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Two Layers of Selfish-Herds in Spawning Aggregations of Chub (Nocomis Sp.) and its Nest Associates
… using the group to benefit itself (i.e., "selfishness"). Selfish behavior is a common part of mutualisms, which are complex, dynamic interactions that often change with biotic or abiotic circumstance. Here, I investigate potential selfish behavior within the mixed-species spawning …
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"A man though not yet a whole one": Flannery O'Connor's vision of the human dilemma
… O'Connor deals with the serious problem of human selfishness and its ugly effects: man's eventual isolation from those around him; ultimately, his insulation from meaning and life itself. Embodying her message in her characters, returning in each of her works to a similar pattern of character …
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Game-Theoretic Analysis of Topology Control
… topologies. We first examine the impact of node selfishness on the network connectivity and energy efficiency under two levels of selfishness: (a) nodes cooperate and forward packets for one another, but selfishly minimize transmit power levels and; (b) nodes selectively forward packets and …
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Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other
… a three-fold way of listening that begins in selfishness and ends in empathy. These three ways of listening I refer to as: “listening-for,” “listening-to,” and “listening-with.” I will briefly explain how each of these ways of listening function in lived experience. Listening-for is …
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Norm Conformity and Social Identity In Collective Action Groups
… regardless of whether norms prescribe relative selfishness or generosity. Following prior work, I also hypothesize that cooperation levels will be higher in normative versus non-normative groups due to higher social identity levels. The research consists of two public goods experiments. The …
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Sin and Sanity in Nineteenth-century America
… 'study of man', and as a critique of the selfishness of diseased society. This dissertation explores the writings of nineteenth-century alienists, trial transcripts, gallows sermons, newspaper coverage of sensational trials, an inmate literary magazine, and the American Journal of …
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Between Two Worlds
… cruelty, handling it with equal parts grace and selfishness. Dive into the minds of Lilith and Snow White as they explore what it means to be themselves in a world that doesn’t care if they end up happy.</p>
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The Morality fo Materiastic Self-Interest, The Corporation of the State
… self-interested, which has led to selfishness and autonomous behavior, leading the corporation to seek dominance over the state. This thesis proposes that to protect public interest and restore the balance between benevolence and self-interest, the state must reassert its authority …
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Self-control, expectations, and patience : essays on social decision making
… and the tendency towards altruism or selfishness. We find that participants depleted of self regulatory resources are highly biased by initial endowments and insufficiently adjust away from them when making transfer decisions. Thus, depending on the nature of the initial endowments, …
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Love's Liberation: The Science of Whole Self-Love
… associate self-love with narcissism and selfishness. This paper advances a theoretical argument towards a healthy form of self-love. To better understand the relationship between self-love and narcissism, we also developed a measure of unconditional, non-narcissistic, self-love, called …
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Home Girls And Understudies: Shy Women In Cold War Theatre And Film
… to personal and professional efficiency, as selfishness which breaks familial and social bonds, as a precursor to mental and physical collapse, as a symptom of modern urban alienation, as a sign of emotional vulnerability, and as a tool for infiltration. The shy girl's weakness thus …
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Saints of Grand Rapids
… guilt over preventable death, overriding selfishness, racism, and shame regarding social status. These failures of character or morality echo the larger failings, as the characters perceive them, of their time and place. Within this worldview of disillusionment and despair, many of the …
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A layered security approach for cooperation enforcement in MANETs
… selfish or sometimes malicious behaviour. This selfishness could potentially lead to network partitioning and network performance degradation. Cooperation enforcement schemes, such as reputation and trust based schemes have been proposed to counteract the issue of selfishness. The sole purpose …
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Liberating articles or oppressive reproduction?: A rhetorical analysis of popular media discourse concerning anorexia
… featuring such variables as rebellion, selfishness, perfectionist tendencies, feelings of inadequacy and pressure from society. While all of these can be supported by a plethora of case studies, there is one thing all popular magazine stories about anorexia have in common: they …
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