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Universality Reconsidered: Diversity in Making Meaning of Facial Expressions
It has long been claimed that certain facial movements are universally perceived as emotional expressions. The critical tests of this universality thesis were conducted between 1969 and 1975 in small-scale societies in the Pacific using confirmation-based research methods. New studies conducted since 2008 have examined a wider sample of small-scale societies, including on the African and South American continents. They used more discovery-based research methods, providing an important opportunity for reevaluating the universality thesis. These new studies reveal diversity, rather than uniformity, in how perceivers make sense of facial movements, calling the universality thesis into doubt. Instead, they support a perceiver-constructed account of emotion perception that is consistent with the broader literature on perception.
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TRACY-WIDOM DISTRIBUTION FOR THE LARGEST EIGENVALUE OF REAL SAMPLE COVARIANCE MATRICES WITH GENERAL POPULATION
We consider sample covariance matrices of the form Q = (∑½X)(∑½X)*, where the sample X is an M × N random matrix whose entries are real independent random variables with variance 1/N and where ∑ is an M × M positive-definite deterministic matrix. We analyze the asymptotic fluctuations of the largest rescaled eigenvalue of Q when both M and N tend to infinity with N/M → d ϵ (0, ∞). For a large class of populations ∑ in the sub-critical regime, we show that the distribution of the largest rescaled eigenvalue of Q is given by the type-1 Tracy-Widom distribution under the additional assumptions that (1) either the entries of X are i.i.d. Gaussians or (2) that ∑ is diagonal and that the entries of X have a sub-exponential decay.
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Islam in retrospect : recovering the message
Renewing our understanding of Islam in today's world. Islam, in many of its current guises, no longer resembles its original Message. In a world of intractable conflicts plagued by political Islam and Islamophobiaand where other forms of fundamentalism within the major religious creeds are on the rise, as wellthis book serves as a reminder. It aims to recover and reaffirm Islams underlying and guiding principles. Setting out to distinguish the divine from the human in order to elucidate the pristine nature of the divine Message, Mahmassani reasserts Islams universal, secular, and progressive character.
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Are we there yet? Academies, scientific organisations, and gender
Is the representation of women in academies and scientific organisations improving, globally? A major new study shows that among the academies, representation of women in membership has risen from 13% (for academies surveyed in 2015) to 16% (for all academies surveyed in 2020).1 The progress is good: the level of representation is shocking. In the words of Daya Reddy, past President of the International Science Council, ‘… Societies expect more diverse gender representation in science.’ This report, however, is a goldmine of information on gender in leading scientific organisations. The study explores the dimensions of differences across disciplines and regional variation, and provides 10 clear recommendations.
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What Scientists Who Study Emotion Agree About
In recent years, the field of emotion has grown enormously—recently, nearly 250 scientists were identified who are studying emotion. In this article, I report a survey of the field, which revealed high agreement about the evidence regarding the nature of emotion, supporting some of both Darwin's and Wundt's 19th century proposals. Topics where disagreements remain were also exposed.
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FROM DUALITY TO DETERMINANTS FOR q-TASEP AND ASEP
We prove duality relations for two interacting particle systems: the q-deformed totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (q-TASEP) and the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP). Expectations of the duality functionals correspond to certain joint moments of particle locations or integrated currents, respectively. Duality implies that they solve systems of ODEs. These systems are integrable and for particular step and half-stationary initial data we use a nested contour integral ansatz to provide explicit formulas for the systems' solutions, and hence also the moments. We form Laplace transform-like generating functions of these moments and via residue calculus we compute two different types of Fredholm determinant formulas for such generating functions. For ASEP, the first type of formula is new and readily lends itself to asymptotic analysis (as necessary to reprove GUE Tracy–Widom distribution fluctuations for ASEP), while the second type of formula is recognizable as closely related to Tracy and Widom's ASEP formula [Comm. Math. Phys. 279 (2008) 815–844, J. Stat. Phys. 132 (2008) 291–300, Comm. Math. Phys. 290 (2009) 129–154, J. Stat. Phys. 140 (2010) 619–634]. For q-TASEP, both formulas coincide with those computed via Borodin and Corwin's Macdonald processes [Probab. Theory Related Fields (2014) 158 225–400]. Both q-TASEP and ASEP have limit transitions to the free energy of the continuum directed polymer, the logarithm of the solution of the stochastic heat equation or the Hopf–Cole solution to the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Thus, q-TASEP and ASEP are integrable discretizations of these continuum objects; the systems of ODEs associated to their dualities are deformed discrete quantum delta Bose gases; and the procedure through which we pass from expectations of their duality functionals to characterizing generating functions is a rigorous version of the replica trick in physics.
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Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for example, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for example, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/individualism and moral dilemma judgements.Including participants from 45 countries, Bago et al. find that the situational factors that affect moral reasoning are shared across countries, with diminished observed cultural variation.
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Matrix concentration inequalities and free probability
A central tool in the study of nonhomogeneous random matrices, the noncommutative Khintchine inequality, yields a nonasymptotic bound on the spectral norm of general Gaussian random matrices X=∑igiAi where gi are independent standard Gaussian variables and Ai are matrix coefficients. This bound exhibits a logarithmic dependence on dimension that is sharp when the matrices Ai commute, but often proves to be suboptimal in the presence of noncommutativity. In this paper, we develop nonasymptotic bounds on the spectrum of arbitrary Gaussian random matrices that can capture noncommutativity. These bounds quantify the degree to which the spectrum of X is captured by that of a noncommutative model Xfree that arises from free probability theory. This “intrinsic freeness” phenomenon provides a powerful tool for the study of various questions that are outside the reach of classical methods of random matrix theory. Our nonasymptotic bounds are easily applicable in concrete situations, and yield sharp results in examples where the noncommutative Khintchine inequality is suboptimal. When combined with a linearization argument, our bounds imply strong asymptotic freeness for a remarkably general class of Gaussian random matrix models that may be very sparse, have dependent entries, and lack any special symmetries. When combined with a universality principle, our bounds extend beyond the Gaussian setting to general sums of independent random matrices.
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