Pessimism
View article: Threat anticipation and proactive response: The effect of defensive pessimism strategy on pilots' safety behavior
Threat anticipation and proactive response: The effect of defensive pessimism strategy on pilots' safety behavior Open
View article: WAITING FOR BETTER WHILE DOING NOTHING: EDUCATED UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE
WAITING FOR BETTER WHILE DOING NOTHING: EDUCATED UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE Open
This study reveals how educated unemployment, fueled by job rejection because of waiting for a good occupation, creates a paradox of waiting labor, stalling economic productivity while perpetuating skill wastage. Without intervention, this…
View article: WAITING FOR BETTER WHILE DOING NOTHING: EDUCATED UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE
WAITING FOR BETTER WHILE DOING NOTHING: EDUCATED UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE Open
This study reveals how educated unemployment, fueled by job rejection because of waiting for a good occupation, creates a paradox of waiting labor, stalling economic productivity while perpetuating skill wastage. Without intervention, this…
View article: The Contested Blueprint: Statecraft, Morality, and Power in Ancient China's Intellectual Revolution
The Contested Blueprint: Statecraft, Morality, and Power in Ancient China's Intellectual Revolution Open
Ancient China's Warring States period (c. 475-221 BCE) was a crucible of profound intellectual ferment, often referred to as the "Hundred Schools of Thought." Amidst relentless political fragmentation and societal upheaval, thinkers conver…
View article: The Contested Blueprint: Statecraft, Morality, and Power in Ancient China's Intellectual Revolution
The Contested Blueprint: Statecraft, Morality, and Power in Ancient China's Intellectual Revolution Open
Ancient China's Warring States period (c. 475-221 BCE) was a crucible of profound intellectual ferment, often referred to as the "Hundred Schools of Thought." Amidst relentless political fragmentation and societal upheaval, thinkers conver…
View article: Recasting the Absolute: Schopenhauer's Idealism of the Will
Recasting the Absolute: Schopenhauer's Idealism of the Will Open
Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy, primarily articulated in "The World as Will and Representation," offers a radical reinterpretation of the Absolute, positing it not as a rational, knowable entity but as a blind, insatiable, and irrational…
View article: The Absolute's Unconscious Turn: From Idealist Spirit to Schopenhauerian Will
The Absolute's Unconscious Turn: From Idealist Spirit to Schopenhauerian Will Open
This paper traces a profound conceptual transformation within German post-Kantian philosophy: the "unconscious turn" of the Absolute. Beginning with the rational, self-developing, and conscious Absolute Spirit characteristic of German Idea…
View article: The Absolute's Unconscious Turn: From Idealist Spirit to Schopenhauerian Will
The Absolute's Unconscious Turn: From Idealist Spirit to Schopenhauerian Will Open
This paper traces a profound conceptual transformation within German post-Kantian philosophy: the "unconscious turn" of the Absolute. Beginning with the rational, self-developing, and conscious Absolute Spirit characteristic of German Idea…
View article: Recasting the Absolute: Schopenhauer's Idealism of the Will
Recasting the Absolute: Schopenhauer's Idealism of the Will Open
Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy, primarily articulated in "The World as Will and Representation," offers a radical reinterpretation of the Absolute, positing it not as a rational, knowable entity but as a blind, insatiable, and irrational…
View article: The Pedagogical Paradoxicon: Understanding Humanistic Education, Algorithmic Ethics And The Rise Of Generative Intelligence
The Pedagogical Paradoxicon: Understanding Humanistic Education, Algorithmic Ethics And The Rise Of Generative Intelligence Open
This volume interrogates the existential friction between humanistic pedagogy and the rapid ascent of generative artificial intelligence, positing that education has entered a "Pedagogical Paradoxicon" a persistent state of complex, genera…
View article: The Pedagogical Paradoxicon: Understanding Humanistic Education, Algorithmic Ethics And The Rise Of Generative Intelligence
The Pedagogical Paradoxicon: Understanding Humanistic Education, Algorithmic Ethics And The Rise Of Generative Intelligence Open
This volume interrogates the existential friction between humanistic pedagogy and the rapid ascent of generative artificial intelligence, positing that education has entered a "Pedagogical Paradoxicon" a persistent state of complex, genera…
View article: Pessimistic Verification for Open Ended Math Questions
Pessimistic Verification for Open Ended Math Questions Open
The key limitation of the verification performance lies in the ability of error detection. With this intuition we designed several variants of pessimistic verification, which are simple workflows that could significantly improve the verifi…
View article: Investor Sentiment and Its Mechanisms in Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Review
Investor Sentiment and Its Mechanisms in Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Review Open
Investor sentiment significantly shapes stock market behavior, influencing asset prices, trading activity, market risk, and portfolio allocation. This review synthesizes conceptual frameworks, empirical evidence, and mechanisms through whi…
View article: Phenomenology of Positivity: Understanding the Joint Dynamics of Self-esteem, Life Satisfaction, and Optimism
Phenomenology of Positivity: Understanding the Joint Dynamics of Self-esteem, Life Satisfaction, and Optimism Open
Positivity, defined as the tendency to view life and experiences with a positive outlook, has recently received a great deal of interest for its significance in understanding human strengths and well-being, yet the temporal interplay among…
View article: Optimism in Equality Saturation
Optimism in Equality Saturation Open
Equality saturation is a technique for program optimization based on non-destructive rewriting and a form of program analysis called e-class analysis. The current form of e-class analysis is pessimistic and therefore ineffective at analyzi…
View article: Reading Between the Lines: Abstaining from VLM-Generated OCR Errors via Latent Representation Probes
Reading Between the Lines: Abstaining from VLM-Generated OCR Errors via Latent Representation Probes Open
As VLMs are deployed in safety-critical applications, their ability to abstain from answering when uncertain becomes crucial for reliability, especially in Scene Text Visual Question Answering (STVQA) tasks. For example, OCR errors like mi…
View article: Le monde et la nature chez Renaud Barbaras
Le monde et la nature chez Renaud Barbaras Open
What we try to understand in this investigation, based in particular on texts from 2016, is the relationship to nature and the relevance of this concept in the current phase of Renaud Barbaras’s thinking, inaugurated by the 2019 book L’App…
View article: Reading Between the Lines: Abstaining from VLM-Generated OCR Errors via Latent Representation Probes
Reading Between the Lines: Abstaining from VLM-Generated OCR Errors via Latent Representation Probes Open
As VLMs are deployed in safety-critical applications, their ability to abstain from answering when uncertain becomes crucial for reliability, especially in Scene Text Visual Question Answering (STVQA) tasks. For example, OCR errors like mi…
View article: Teacher, Heal Thyself! Exploring Medical Procrastination Among Female Educators – A preliminary pioneering study
Teacher, Heal Thyself! Exploring Medical Procrastination Among Female Educators – A preliminary pioneering study Open
This exploratory pioneering study examined sociobehavioral and health-related predictors of medical procrastination among female elementary school teachers in Israel, a group that represents the overwhelming majority of the profession. Med…
View article: Социализация трудовых мигрантов: проблемы права
Социализация трудовых мигрантов: проблемы права Open
The article is devoted to the problem of migrants' perception of the legal provision of their stay in Russia and is a continuation of the material "Socialization of migrant workers: problems of set-tlement»", published in the previous issu…
View article: A Bayesian approach to the Machina paradox
A Bayesian approach to the Machina paradox Open
Variants of the Ellsberg urn experiments introduced by Machina (Am. Econ. Rev., 99(1), 385-392, 2009) have challenged several prominent models of ambiguity aversion. We show that our Bayesian hierarchical model -originally developed to ex…
View article: Mitigating Estimation Bias with Representation Learning in TD Error-Driven Regularization
Mitigating Estimation Bias with Representation Learning in TD Error-Driven Regularization Open
Deterministic policy gradient algorithms for continuous control suffer from value estimation biases that degrade performance. While double critics reduce such biases, the exploration potential of double actors remains underexplored. Buildi…
View article: Future cost of climate change for humanitarian crises
Future cost of climate change for humanitarian crises Open
Humanitarian crises are the tip of the iceberg in climate change adaptation, yet their future is rarely quantified in human and economic terms. We use machine learning to simulate future estimates of people in need of humanitarian aid and …
View article: Mitigating Estimation Bias with Representation Learning in TD Error-Driven Regularization
Mitigating Estimation Bias with Representation Learning in TD Error-Driven Regularization Open
Deterministic policy gradient algorithms for continuous control suffer from value estimation biases that degrade performance. While double critics reduce such biases, the exploration potential of double actors remains underexplored. Buildi…
View article: Future cost of climate change for humanitarian crises
Future cost of climate change for humanitarian crises Open
Humanitarian crises are the tip of the iceberg in climate change adaptation, yet their future is rarely quantified in human and economic terms. We use machine learning to simulate future estimates of people in need of humanitarian aid and …
View article: A Note on the Complexity of Bilevel Linear Programs in Fixed Dimensions
A Note on the Complexity of Bilevel Linear Programs in Fixed Dimensions Open
Bilevel linear programs (BLPs) form a class of hierarchical decision-making problems in which both the upper-level and the lower-level decision-makers, known as the leader and the follower, respectively, solve linear optimization problems.…
View article: A Note on the Complexity of Bilevel Linear Programs in Fixed Dimensions
A Note on the Complexity of Bilevel Linear Programs in Fixed Dimensions Open
Bilevel linear programs (BLPs) form a class of hierarchical decision-making problems in which both the upper-level and the lower-level decision-makers, known as the leader and the follower, respectively, solve linear optimization problems.…
View article: Mistaking bad news for good news: investor optimism and mispricing of strategic alternatives announcements
Mistaking bad news for good news: investor optimism and mispricing of strategic alternatives announcements Open
Companies’ strategic alternatives announcements lead to negative future stock returns. First, we investigate whether this anomaly exists. We demonstrate that it is significant and pervasive across years, industries, firm size, and informat…
View article: Dispositional optimism and pessimism in relation to physical activity and fitness in adulthood – a 15-year follow-up study
Dispositional optimism and pessimism in relation to physical activity and fitness in adulthood – a 15-year follow-up study Open
Higher optimism and lower pessimism promote PA in adulthood, while PA may reduce pessimism. Cross-sectional associations with muscular fitness were detected.
View article: Sheikh Ashour bin Youssef Kaskas (d. 2019 CE): His Life and Scholarly Endeavors
Sheikh Ashour bin Youssef Kaskas (d. 2019 CE): His Life and Scholarly Endeavors Open
Some personalities who pass through this universe leave their mark on us as long as humanity exists, and they become an example to be emulated. Among these personalities is Sheikh Ashour bin Youssef Kaskas, the subject of our study. This s…