Agreement Of People Research Articles

Perceptual variance of natural soil aggregates with the Munsell soil colour charts by unexperienced observers: Case study for diverse soils

Munsell Soil Colour Charts are widely used by soil scientists as the most unbiased way for determining the colour of soil samples. However, there are only a few studies on the variance in people's assessment of the colour of soil samples on this scale and the factors that determine this variance. In this work, we analyze the colour estimates of > 100 undisturbed soil samples by 20 people. For diverse soil samples collected from Anthrosols, Arenosols, Histosols, Podzols and Retisols at the Smolenskoye Poozerye national park, the fraction of votes that support the mode differs from 0.15 to 0.63 with mean of 0.29. The agreement of people’s estimates is significantly less pronounced for hue than for value (p = 0.0001) and chroma (p = 0.002) in dark and muted, but not in light and saturated samples. On average, females vote for mode in more fraction of samples than males (p = 0.026). Moreover, there are people who vote for and against mode more frequently that it is expected by chance. Within-sample variances of estimates calculated after conversion into RGB and CIELAB systems correlate weekly with uncertainty of estimates calculated as fraction of votes that do not support the mode. Soil horizons have different variances in colour estimates. The uncertainty in colour estimation with a Munsell Soil Colour Chart is highly dependent on both sample characteristics and people. The agreement between participants in colour assessment increases substantially when neighboring Munsell chips are treated as equal.

Labelling affects agreement with political statements of right-wing populist parties.

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populist parties across Europe, it is an intriguing question under which conditions people agree with right-wing political statements. The present study investigates whether mere labelling of political statements as endorsed by a right-wing populist party influences people's agreement with such statements. In the study (pre-registered; N = 221 German voters), it is shown than that supporters of the right-wing populist party indicated higher agreement with the statements when they were labelled as being endorsed by the party (vs. not labelled), whereas non-supporters indicated lower agreement with the labelled than with the non-labelled statements. We conclude that labelling of the very same political statements changes voters' agreement with these statements. The results imply that rather than (dis)agreeing with the content of the statements per se, people may (dis)agree with right-wing populist statements because they come from a specific source (i.e., the right-wing populist party).

Third-person perception of online comments: Civil ones persuade you more than me

Using online comments posted on news stories as the context, this study aimed to examine the interplay between the third-person perception (TPP) – that people believe media message have a greater effect on changing the attitudes of others compared with themselves – and online incivility. It also examined whether people's agreement with the content of the comments would influence the TPP. Results of an experiment (N = 301) showed incivility muted the persuasive effect of online comments, so only civil comments produced a TPP, whereby people felt comments had greater persuasive power over others compared with themselves. However, counter to predictions, whether people agreed with the comments did not influence the TPP. Findings also supported the TPP social distance corollary such that subjects perceived comments as having the largest third-person perceptual gap between the self and those who disagreed with them. Results are discussed in relation to TPP and face and politeness theories.

Rio+20: sustainable injustice in a time of crises

This article argues that Rio+20 failed because it replicated the failings of sustainable development in the form of green economy. Against a backdrop of discrete but overlapping crises, including the global economic crisis, climate change and a growing crisis of food insecurity, the final text seemed oblivious to the slow wearing out of neoliberalism, dogmatically insisting on the panacea of market-based solutions to climate change and environmental destruction.1 As such, the text symbolizes the epistemological crisis of technoscientific Eurocentric rationality. Using Walter Mignolo's concept of coloniality and Boaventura de Sousa Santos's call for the cultivation of an ecology of knowledges, this article examines the transformative potential of subaltern forms of jurisprudence, such as the People's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. It argues that a significant epistemological shift is required to enable humanity to confront the injustices perpetuated by the vision embodied in the Rio+20 final document.

Positive fantasies dampen charitable giving when many resources are demanded

Previous research found that positive fantasies about an idealized future yield low energy to pursue the fantasized future. We examined how positive fantasies about the resolution of a crisis (i.e., a lack of pain medication in Sierra Leone, the risk of flooding after Hurricane Irene) influence people's agreement to donate to charitable efforts directed at crisis resolution. In three studies, positive fantasies dampened the likelihood of agreeing to donate a relatively large amount of money, effort, or time, but did not affect the likelihood of agreeing to donate a relatively small amount of these resources. The effect of positive fantasies was mediated by perceiving the donation of larger (but not smaller) amounts of resources as overly demanding. These findings suggest that charitable solicitations requesting small donations might benefit from stimulating positive fantasies in potential donors, but those requesting large donations could be hurt.

Programming successful branch meetings: The secret ingredients for success are advance planning, people agreement, and good publicity

Whether it's getting a student paper contest, a speaker, or merely a beer blast off the ground, it takes work, coordination, and team effort to be successful. If your Student Branch's activities never go far or very well, here are some general suggestions on how to program successful Branch activities.