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View article: On People’s Worries about Becoming a Victim of Events or Conditions Often Blamed on Those up There
On People’s Worries about Becoming a Victim of Events or Conditions Often Blamed on Those up There Open
The authors study people’s worries about becoming victimized by events and conditions often blamed on “those up there”. Excessive worries are bad for people’s performance because they lead to risk avoidance and lower self-confidence. In tw…
View article: On the Role of Security in the System of Personal Values: Are Conservatives Prioritizing Security?
On the Role of Security in the System of Personal Values: Are Conservatives Prioritizing Security? Open
Security is a value contained in most theories of personal values. Yet, while the relations among the most basic values are clear and reliable, the role of security in the system of values remains ambiguous. People striving for security ar…
View article: Attitudes toward crime(s) and their relations to gender, age, and personal values
Attitudes toward crime(s) and their relations to gender, age, and personal values Open
People's attitudes toward crimes and how they are related to gender, age, and personal values are studied here based on data from six representative surveys with altogether 14,591 respondents collected in four German cities between 1998 an…
View article: A Note on Procrustean Fittings of Noisy Configurations
A Note on Procrustean Fittings of Noisy Configurations Open
When comparing two or more multidimensional scaling (MDS) configurations, one usually first eliminates meaningless differences by Procrustean transformations. Such fittings lead to a number of unresolved issues such as the typical shrinkag…
View article: The perceived seriousness of crimes: inter-individual commonalities and differences
The perceived seriousness of crimes: inter-individual commonalities and differences Open
The paper focuses on ratings of the perceived seriousness of crimes and how they can be explained in a testable scaling model (SOCID) that shows commonalities and differences among individuals. The model assumes that crimes are first repre…
View article: Using Support Vector Machines for Facet Partitioning in Multidimensional Scaling
Using Support Vector Machines for Facet Partitioning in Multidimensional Scaling Open
In this article we focus on interpreting multidimensional scaling (MDS) configurations using facet theory. The facet theory approach is attempting to partition a representational space, facet by facet, into regions with certain simplifying…
View article: Inside and Outside Perspectives on the Relation of People’s Personal Values and Their Acceptance of Legal Norms
Inside and Outside Perspectives on the Relation of People’s Personal Values and Their Acceptance of Legal Norms Open
Based on a representative survey on crime prevention, this paper studies how personal values are related to persons’ acceptance of legal norms (LNA). We here take a closer look at these relations than previous research. Offenses, in partic…
View article: Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms
Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms Open
The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’ and non-delinquents’ general attitudes towards legal norms. We expect that 10 basic personal values form a circular scale common to all individuals, both deli…
View article: Data Fit (Stress) vs. Model Fit (Recovery) in Multidimensional Scaling
Data Fit (Stress) vs. Model Fit (Recovery) in Multidimensional Scaling Open
The paper studies the relation of data fit (Stress) and model fit (recovery of a true latent configuration superimposed with random error) depending on the number of points and the error level in the data when running ordinal and interval …
View article: Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model?
Do the PVQ and the IRVS scales for personal values support Schwartz’s value circle model or Klages’ value dimensions model? Open
The paper compares the theoretical implications of two popular scales for the measurement of personal values, the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) of Schwartz et al. (J Cross-Cult Psychol, 32:519-542, 2001) and the IRVS of Hermann (Wert…
View article: Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding.
Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding. Open
Judging goodness of fit in multidimensional scaling requires a comprehensive set of diagnostic tools instead of relying on stress rules of thumb. This article elaborates on corresponding strategies and gives practical guidelines for resear…
View article: The Choice of Initial Configurations in Multidimensional Scaling: Local Minima, Fit, and Interpretability
The Choice of Initial Configurations in Multidimensional Scaling: Local Minima, Fit, and Interpretability Open
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) algorithms can easily end up in local minima, depending on the starting configuration. This is particularly true for 2-dimensional ordinal MDS. A simulation study shows that there can be many local minima tha…
View article: Early versus Later Respondents in Intranet-based, Organizational Surveys
Early versus Later Respondents in Intranet-based, Organizational Surveys Open
Differences between waves of respondents (earlier versus later) has been assessed in past survey results to detect possible bias in relationships between attitutes and response time. The measurement of response time was imprecise in these …
View article: Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding
Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Open
Judging goodness of fit in multidimensional scaling requires a comprehensive set of diagnostic tools instead of relying on stress rules of thumb. This article elaborates on corresponding strategies and gives practical guidelines for resear…
View article: Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding
Goodness-of-Fit Assessment in Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Open
Judging goodness of fit in multidimensional scaling requires a comprehensive set of diagnostic tools instead of relying on stress rules of thumb. This article elaborates on corresponding strategies and gives practical guidelines for resear…