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Honest Or Deceitful?: A Study Of Persons' Mental Models For Judging Veracity, John S. Seiter Dec 1997

Honest Or Deceitful?: A Study Of Persons' Mental Models For Judging Veracity, John S. Seiter

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study focused on understanding the detailed and dynamic mental models that people develop for judging veracity. It was hypothesized that individual differences in such mental models, assessed by using Thagard's (1989) ECHO computer simulation program, would predict participants' attributions and confidence in making attributions. After watching videotapes of targets, 120 participants rated targets' veracity and their own confidence in making attributions. Half of these participants also provided “on-line” information that, in turn, was entered into ECHO. The two groups did not differ in their judgments of veracity, but the on-line group was significantly more confident. Results from ECHO and …


Probable Causes And The Distinction Between Subjective And Objective Chance, Stuart M. Glennan Jan 1997

Probable Causes And The Distinction Between Subjective And Objective Chance, Stuart M. Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In this paper I present both a critical appraisal of Humphreys' probabilistic theory of causality and a sketch of an alternative view of the relationship between the notions of probability and of cause. Though I do not doubt that determinism is false, I claim that the examples used to motivate Humphreys' theory typically refer to subjective rather than objective chance. Additionally, I argue on a number of grounds that Humphreys' suggestion that linear regression models be used as a canonical form for the description of causal relations is untenable. I conclude by exploring the variety of ways in which probabilistic …


Concerto Grosso For Homemade Instruments (1997), Frank Felice Jan 1997

Concerto Grosso For Homemade Instruments (1997), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Homemade instruments and orchestra – composed for Diane Wittry and the Symphony of Southeast Texas– premiered, January 1998


Passage (1997), Frank Felice Jan 1997

Passage (1997), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Concert band/wind ensemble – composed for Barry Johnson, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma and the Lamar University Symphonic Band – premiered by them, March 1998


Antics (Pagliacciata) (1997), Frank Felice Jan 1997

Antics (Pagliacciata) (1997), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Wind ensemble – composed for Robert Grechesky and the Butler Wind Ensemble, premiered by them, April, 1997


Assessing The Ark: A Christian Perspective On Non-Human Creatures And The Endangered Species Act, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger, Virginia Vroblesky Jan 1997

Assessing The Ark: A Christian Perspective On Non-Human Creatures And The Endangered Species Act, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger, Virginia Vroblesky

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Void If Detached, Tom Wolf Jan 1997

Void If Detached, Tom Wolf

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.