Publications

The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

How do societies control trust relationships that are not embedded in structures of personal relations? This paper discusses the guardians of impersonal trust and discovers that...

Blood pressure and incidence of twelve cardiovascular diseases: lifetime risks, healthy life-years lost, and age-specific associations in 1·25 million people

Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval

Currently, most approaches to retrieving textual materials from scientific databases depend on a lexical match between words in users’ requests and those in or assigned to docum...

Sifting the evidence---what's wrong with significance tests? Another comment on the role of statistical methods

The findings of medical research are often met with considerable scepticism, even when they have apparently come from studies with sound methodologies that have been subjected t...

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is the entry-level subject in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is required of all studen...

A general framework for object detection

This paper presents a general trainable framework for object detection in static images of cluttered scenes. The detection technique we develop is based on a wavelet representat...

Social networks and Internet connectivity effects

This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as b...

Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.

This study examined how adult attachment styles moderate spontaneous behavior between dating couples when 1 member of the dyad is confronted with an anxiety-provoking situation....

Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “True Self” on the Internet

Those who feel better able to express their “true selves” in Internet rather than face‐to‐face interaction settings are more likely to form close relationships with people met o...

Random-Walk Computation of Similarities between Nodes of a Graph with Application to Collaborative Recommendation

This work presents a new perspective on characterizing the similarity between elements of a database or, more generally, nodes of a weighted and undirected graph. It is based on...

Organizational Responses to Crisis: The Centrality of Trust

Within this division, there is a real problem with the lower level people not trusting the people at the top, because the people feel that the management doesn't tell them the t...

The funds, friends, and faith of happy people.

New studies are revealing predictors of subjective well-being, often assessed as self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. Worldwide, most people report being at least mode...