Tax evasion and emotions: An empirical test of re-integrative shaming theory

Shaming can be either of two types, shaming that becomes stigmatization of the offender and favors his exclusion from the community, or shaming that is followed by forgiveness and reintegration of the deviant. Here we test experimentally these aspects of shaming theory with a repeated tax-payment game, in which the shaming “ritual” consisted of displaying the evader’s picture in addition to charging monetary sanctions. Results show that when cheating is made public and the contravener is not successively reintegrated, the total amount of cheating is significantly increased compared to when cheating is made public but publicity is immediately followed by reintegration. The former condition is associated with more intense negative emotions related to cheating. This suggests that the employment of a social shaming mechanism may be an effective, albeit very sensitive, tool in the hands of policy makers.     

The Generalized Pascal Triangle and the Matrix Variate Jensen-Logistic Distribution

This article defines the so called Generalized Matrix Variate Jensen-Logistic distribution. The relevant applications of this class of distributions in Configuration Shape Theory consist of a more efficient computation, supported by the corresponding inference. This demands the solution of two important problems: (1) the development of analytical and efficient formulae for their k-th derivatives and (2) the use of the derivatives to transform the configuration density into a polynomial density under some special matrix Kummer relation, indexed in this case by the Jensen-Logistic kernel. In this article, we solve these problems by deriving a simple formula for the k-th derivative of the density function, avoiding the usual partition theory framework and using a generalization of Pascal triangles. Then we apply the results by obtaining the associated Jensen-Logistic Kummer relations and the configuration polynomial density in the setting of Statistical Shape Theory.     

现代科学技术发展之哲学思考

现代科学技术的发展 ,尤其是信息技术、生物技术和新材料技术发展十分迅猛 ,而控制论、信息论和系统论又为现代科学技术的发展提供了崭新的思想和方法 ,推动了各门边缘学科和综合性学科的发展 ,并随着人类认识功能的深化 ,以及科学研究方法的不断完善 ,越来越深刻地反映着大自然、人类和社会的真实图景。     

A note on nonlinear regression for the autoregressive moving average with non-hd errors

Estimation by nonlinear regression of the parameters for the stationary and invertible autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model with mixing or martingale difference errors is considered. Simple proofs of consistency and asymptotic normality for the nonlinear least squares estimator are given by exploiting results from nonlinear estimation theory and mixing and mixingale theory.     

Practices and Flows of Digital Photography: An Ethnographic Framework

This article develops a methodological framework for undertaking empirical studies of practices and flows, of doings and circulations, of digital tourist photography. The article outlines what might be termed a non‐representational approach to photography concerned with affordances, actor‐networks, hybridized practices and networked flows of photographs. The article falls in three parts. It begins with rethinking photography theory. Traditional dualisms between affordance and practice are challenged, and photography is conceptualized as a hybridized, embodied performance. How digital photography changes photography's traditional affordances is then discussed. The third part discusses various methods to describe how affordances of digital tourist photography are used, twisted and resisted in concrete hybridized practices. I suggest undertaking multi‐sided ethnographies with ‘busy photographers’ to craft non‐representational accounts of mobile practices of photographing and flows of photographic images across various sites and actor‐networks. In a broader sense, this article is a methodological contribution to ‘the new mobilities paradigm’.     

Interdisciplinary Applications: Providing a Past for “Bodies That Matter”: Judith Butler's Impact on the Archaeology of Gender

Recent archeological work on gender and sexuality has drawn on Judith Butler's discussions of abjection and gender performance in ways that promise to contribute to explicating these concepts. Representations of the past have the potential to lend the illusion of time depth, and thus cultural legitimacy, to contemporary social phenomena. Initially, feminist scholarship in archaeology did not critically interrogate gender. Consequently, it could be used to reinforce static, natural, and binary representations of gender in reconstructions of the past and their use in conservative ways in the present. Recently, some archaeologists have begun to focus on the regulatory modes through which gender was produced and reproduced in prehistoric communities. Archaeological work has been especially successful in examining the material dimensions of gender performance, thus addressing one of the repeated criticisms of this concept. The authors of this essay provide an overview of this recent archaeological writing with an emphasis on the ways it draws on, critiques, and extends the work of Judith Butler.     

论“与时俱进”的理论内涵

江泽民同志在"七一"讲话中指出:与时俱进是马克思主义的理论品质。这一科学论断既是对马克思主义科学性的新概括,更是对其理论创新的实质要求。它强调了坚持、运用和发展马克思主义一定要以变化着的社会实践为根本价值参照;一定要敢于和善于解放自己、否定自己;强调了理论创新的基本原则是求立性、升级性和单维指向性。     

正确把握"毛泽东思想概论"课与"邓小平理论概论"课的关系

正确把握“毛泽东思想概论”与“邓小平理论概论”两门课的关系 ,应做到以下几点 :第一 ,正确认识毛泽东思想与邓小平理论的关系 ,毛泽东思想与邓小平理论是马克思主义与中国革命实际相结合的两大理论成果 ,各有自己的特色 ,不能扬一抑一。第二 ,教学中应讲清两者之间的内在联系 ,处理好两门课内容的衔接。第三 ,担任两门课的教师可以互兼。两门课互兼可以收到互补、互通、互证的效果     

灿烂的牺牲——毛泽东对终极价值的追问探析

毛泽东同志关于终极价值的理论包括"为人民而死"、"死的意义"、大美的死等内蕴,探讨毛泽东同志终极价值的理论发展对今天构建设社会主义道德观有一定的意义.     

目标导向审计理论体系刍议

“审计目标导向”存在着广泛的实践基础与可靠的科学依据。审计目标导向下不同表现形式的审计理论体系(审计对象分野的审计理论体系、审计职能分野的审计理论体系和统一的审计理论体系 )具有客观性 ,审计界应当站在审计科学发展的最高立场上 ,建立适合国家审计、民间审计和内部审计以及财务审计、绩效审计的统一的审计理论体系