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Tuesday, June 24. 2014
The Cybernetics of Humor

Presented to the American Society for Cybernetics conference, Washington DC, August 2014
The Cybernetics of Humor; The Application of Signature Analysis to Humor
Second edition of eBook available on-line from Amazon.
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Saturday, December 8. 2012
A Primer on the Interpretation of Humor

Humor is probably a uniquely human characteristic, here humor is defined as A sudden falsification of perceived threat. The falsification presumes the perception of a lie, humans can recognize a lie, animals maybe not.
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Tuesday, October 4. 2011
The Design and Validation of an Artificial Personality

The purpose of the paper is to expose the usefulness and scientific roots of the Artificial Psychology patent and support its commercial viability by statistical evidence.
Article published by:
Kybernetes, Vol. 40 No. 7/8, 2011
Full text is obtainable on-line.
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Friday, August 5. 2011
Comparing Regulators: The Homeostat vs. Multiplier Feedback

To be presented at the American Society for Cybernetics conference, Richmond IN, August 2011
To compare the regulation mechanisms of negative feedback with multiplier feedback. Continue reading "Comparing Regulators: The Homeostat vs...." »
Friday, July 8. 2011
What Cybernetics Got to do with Humor Research?

Presented at the annual ISHS meeting at Boston in July 2011.
To introduce second order cybernetics concepts to humor research. Continue reading "What Cybernetics Got to do with Humor Research?" »
Tuesday, January 5. 2010
Artificial Psychology Dialog Player with Aging Simulation

US Patent #7644060 issued on Jan. 5, 2010
An artificial psychology dialog player is a software program that picks a sentence line from a repertoire according to probabilistic rules and artificial personality states. The model of personality has four motivational dimensions, one of which (the emotions) is always paired with one of the remaining three (feeding, sociosexual and parenting motivations); each pair is identified with a stage of human age. Continue reading "Artificial Psychology Dialog Player with Aging..." »
Thursday, February 19. 2009
New Survey Confirms Link between Humor Preference and Age-Personality

Internet TechNote February 18, 2009
The purpose is to confirm the humor/age link and to seek humor/personality link in order to support a patent application.
A humor appreciation internet survey with 40 humor lines and 20/50 Big 5 (B5) personality items ran for the span of 2008. The humor/age link of the previous survey was confirmed and evidence was found that humor scores are correlated mainly with the emotional stability factor of the B5, while cognitive scores (differential) are linked with the remaining four cognitive factors. The correlation coefficients were too small to show specifics of factor links it was thought hat this is due to the small number of participants.
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Sunday, December 9. 2007
Humor preference changes with age

Internet TechNote December 8, 2007
The purpose is to explore the statistical basis for a possible patent application based on the 4D model.
Two humor appreciation internet surveys ran in 2007, the humor lines were interpreted according to the 4D model and the scores analyzed against age and gender variation. The analysis supported age prediction with statistical significance but no significant gender difference. The statistics in effect provided initial validation. Continue reading "Humor preference changes with age" »
Sunday, March 26. 2006
Personality between Cognition and Motivation

Internet TechNote March 26, 2006
To describe a hypothesis of personality structure where the dimensions derived by factor analysis can be interpreted in dual cognitive and motivational context.
Comparing the descriptions of the four drives (4D) with the dimensions of some well known personality models reveals a more complex structure than the simple two dimensional tables shows. The novelty is to interpret in two contexts: cognition and motivation, some dimensions appear to be referenced in a cognitive manner, others in motivational manner and the remaining seem mixed or rotated between the two. Continue reading "Personality between Cognition and Motivation" »
Thursday, March 16. 2006
Aging between Cognition and Motivation

Internet TechNote March 16, 2006
To explain an intuitive rationale behind linking humor type preference to post adulthood age.
Humans are considered mature and accountable usually at age 18 yet their behavior keeps developing afterwards. Post adulthood age related behavioral development cannot be attributed to cognition otherwise it would be a legal issue, e.g. a systematic factor in determining the guilt or innocence beyond adulthood. Behavioral development has to be attributed to motivation.
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Artificial Intelligence between Cognition and Motivaton

Internet TechNote March 16, 2006
The purpose is to present arguments that support the duality of cognition and motivation
Cognition alone cannot mimic human behavior; not only because cognition is static but also because cognition requires motivation in order to define its context.
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Friday, May 26. 1995
A New Nonlinear Model of Mechanism of Motivation

Refereed paper by Kadri, F.L. and Duncan, I.J.,
published in Behavioural Processes v.33 (1995) pp. 273-288
To propose a mathematically rigorous dynamic nonlinear model of motivation combining priming and homeostatic mechanisms.
Minimum recommended background:
1- Working knowledge of Laplace Transforms
2- Basic knowledge of Multidimensional Laplace Transform (MLT) techniques, see for example chapters 1 to 7 in book: Schetzen, M, "The Volterra and Wiener Theories of Nonlinear Systems", Wiley, New York 1980. Continue reading "A New Nonlinear Model of Mechanism of Motivation" »
Wednesday, November 9. 1994
Sound Location in the Barn Owl

Initial findings were reported as: Barn Owls use ITD's as Elevation Cues, Animal Behavior Society (NERABS) Meeting, Univ. of New Hampshire, Northampton, MA 1994.
Barn owls have asymmetrical ears and can locate the sound of prey horizontally and vertically in total darkness. Current research since the 1970's believes that horizontal location cues came from time and vertical from intensity differences as sensed by the owl's ears. In 1994 I challenged the view that intensity differences played any part in sound location and reported statistical evidence that points to time differences as the cues to both horizontal and vertical locations. Article submission for publication in a peer review journal was not accepted. Continue reading "Sound Location in the Barn Owl" »
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