The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to consider these significant aspects of the...

Drawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. This second edition of the...

Part I Methodology -- Chapter 1 Empirical Validation of the 10-Times Rule for SEM -- Chapter 2 Missing Values in RGCCA: Algorithms and Comparisons -- Chapter 3 Comparing Local vs Global Clustering with FIMIX-PLS. Application to Marketing -- Chapter 4 Partial Least Squares Structural Equation...

Models of ethical voting, in which individuals derive intrinsic utility from “doing their part” by voting in elections, have been proposed as an explanation for the “voting paradox” (why people vote if the probability of being pivotal is negligible). I show that the set of equilibria of...

All social relationships and the coordination of any activity between humans depend upon the transmission, reception, storage and processing units of information measured in bytes. Bytes provide a basis for grounding the study of social relationship and institutions in the natural sciences...

Non-cognitivism, the belief that normative statements, unlike empirical statements do NOT convey objective knowledge is deeply embedded in mainstream social science methodology and strongly influences the views of social scientists on the status of values in social science. This article...