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Kelley L. Carter Tribune reporter | Chicago Tribune reporter
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jun 29, 2008
A New Yorker by birth, McKean graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he linked up with actor and fellow student David Lander. ...
New Threat: The 'Obama Market'
New York Sun, United States - Jun 29, 2008
"You have to be crazy not to be conservative in this kind of market unless you're willing to take a bath," he says. Further, the veteran adviser, ...

Chiang Mai City Life
Scared of the Water
Chiang Mai City Life, Thailand - Jun 30, 2008
Suraphong Wattanachira of the Department of Environmental Studies CMU assured me, "the tap water is safe to drink in Chiang Mai," and when I asked him if he ...
So You Think You Can Dance
National Journal, DC - Jun 27, 2008
You're not in that camp?" Obama: "I'm not in the camp of their overall reasoning. Now, how they applied it and how they will apply it in the future I think ...

X17 Online
Will Smith's New School: For Scientologists In Training?
X17 Online, California -
David S. Touretzky, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University argues that it is Scientology disguised as education. ...
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school Los Angeles Times
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Last lecture offers life-changing lessons
Galesburg Register-Mail, IL - Jun 28, 2008
If you haven?t yet heard about Randy Paush, he is a brilliant, 46 year old, computer science professor from Carnegie Mellon who is dying from pancreatic ...

Los Angeles Times
Hands-free cellphone use while driving won't make the roads safer ...
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jun 27, 2008
Marcel Just, a neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, conducted brain imaging of 29 young adults to gauge the cognitive demands of ...
ALCOA's 'bench strength': Summer Intern Conference returns to ...
Maryville Daily Times, TN - Jun 29, 2008
And the guests are not exactly your average tourists. The name tags are a clue: Penn State, Purdue, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, North Carolina, ...
Wind contract deemed highly symbolic
The News Journal, DE - Jun 29, 2008
"It's not going to save the world. It's not going to cause too many problems, either," said Jay Apt, a distinguished service professor at Carnegie Mellon ...
'WALL?E' focuses on its hero's heart
USA Today - Jun 24, 2008
"It's being God-like ? you're creating life. It's the Frankenstein story," says Fuchs. "In the future, robots will become more and more like us. ...
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Collaboration in performance of physical tasks: effects on outcomes and communication -
RE Kraut, MD Miller, J Siegel - Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported …, 1996 - portal.acm.org
... four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students were recruited to participate
in this experiment, of whom sixty completed it. One subject did not finish ...

Coordination of communication: effects of shared visual context on collaborative work -
SR Fussell, RE Kraut, J Siegel - Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported …, 2000 - portal.acm.org
... Workers consisted of 25 Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate ... only condition the
manuals were not yolked. ... I don?t understand what you?re talking about ...

Clinical versus actuarial judgment -
RM Dawes, D Faust, PE Meehl - Science, 1989 - sciencemag.org
If you're seeing this message, it means that ... using a browser that does not support
current ... Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh ...

Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A Roundtable Discussion -
RE Kass, BP Carlin, A Gelman, RM Neal - The American Statistician, 1998 - questia.com
... about parameters and predictions, not functionals. ... what posterior feature you're
interested in. ... Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh ...

STATISTICS: Bayes Offers a'New'Way to Make Sense of Numbers -
D Malakoff - Science, 1999 - sciencemag.org
... statistics, explains Brian Junker, a statistician at Carnegie Mellon University
in ... frequentists used to say to Bayesians, 'You're wrong--but ... We're not going to ...

COTS integration: plug and pray? -
B Boehm, C Abts - Computer, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... downstream options; once you?re committed, it ... software independence Integration not
always trivial ... 17 Architecture Workshop, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh ...

A cognitive model of planning -
B Hayes-Roth, F Hayes-Roth - Cognitive Science, 1979 - Elsevier
... You're going to be takingthem with you all day long. ... sub-plans.Similarly, the planner
does not plan in ... CMU Computer Science Research Group, 1977;Lesser, Fennell ...

Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension -
MA Just, PA Carpenter, TA Keller, WF Eddy, KR … - Science, 1996 - sciencemag.org
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A. Keller, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh ...

Visual Information as a Conversational Resource in Collaborative Physical Tasks -
RE Kraut, SR Fussell, J Siegel - Human-Computer Interaction, 2003 - Lawrence Earlbaum
... In the audio-only condition, the manuals were not yoked ... Participants consisted of
60 Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students (69% male), who received ...

[PDF] Goal-Driven Software Measurement?A Guidebook -
RE Park, WB Goethert, WA Florac - Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Aug, 1996 - tarpit.rmc.ca
... CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT
TO FREEDOM FROM PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. ...

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Carnegie Mellon Study Says You're
Not As Generous As You Think

PITTSBURGH—A new study out of Carnegie Mellon University reveals that people who regard themselves as humanitarians are even more likely than others to base donations to the poor on whether they believe poverty is a result of bad luck or bad choices.

The study by Christina Fong, a research scientist in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon, supports previous findings that people are more likely to give money to the poor when they believe that poverty is a result of misfortune rather than laziness. What's surprising is that this effect is largest among people who claim to have more humanitarian or egalitarian beliefs. In fact, humanitarians give no more than others when recipients are deemed to be poor because of laziness.

Fong's results, published in the July issue of the Economic Journal, are significant because altruistic behavior is not well explained by traditional economics, which assumes that self-interest is the prime motivator for human behavior.

"These findings, along with prior findings from social survey data and experiments, help economists develop more realistic models of human behavior so that they can better explain how societies deal with poverty and inequality. They imply that people may be more likely to support policies and charities that help insure people against bad luck rather than their own choices," Fong said. 

"For instance, transfer payments to people with prior work histories tend to be relatively popular as do expenditures on health and education for poor children, who are too young to be held personally accountable for their poverty," she said.

Fong conducted an experiment in which subjects were given $10 and asked to decide how much, if any, to give to a real-life welfare recipient. A few days prior to the experiment, participants completed surveys about their values and beliefs, including beliefs about whether lack of effort or bad luck cause poverty. The survey also included questions designed to measure whether participants considered themselves to be humanitarians. 

During the experiment, donors were randomly matched with three different welfare recipients with varying work histories and desires for full-time work. This information, combined with the participants' individual beliefs about the causes of poverty, had a major impact on giving. People who believed that their recipient was poor because of bad luck gave six and a half times as much as people who believed that their recipient was poor because of laziness. 

Those who scored high on the humanitarian measure gave more money to recipients judged to be victims of bad luck than those who scored low - but the two groups made the same offers to welfare recipients judged to be lazy. Fong terms this desire to help people on the condition that they appear to deserve it "empathetic responsiveness."

"This concept blends two well-known concepts of empathy. The first is the idea that empathy is an emotion that can evoke altruistic behavior. The second is the idea that empathy is the ability to attend and respond to another being," Fong said. "Empathy in this sense may result not only in positive responses to another person, such as sympathy followed by helping behavior, but also in negative responses such as anger followed by revenge."
 
 
 
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