This paper begins by describing a universally recurring socio-cultural 'game' of inter-group competition for control of resources. It next describes efforts to author software agents able to play the game as real humans would – which suggests the ability to study alternative ways to influence...

Behavioral operations management (BOM) is a rapidly growing field. It relaxes the assumption that "human being is rational" in the decision-making process, considers behavioral and cognitive aspects rooted in psychology to develop models for operations, and processes in production and...

The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity....