In a chapter in Farr and Moscovici's (1984) book, Social Representations, the late Jos Jaspars and I made a first attempt to discuss some of the relations between attitudes and social representations (Jaspars and Fraser, 1984). In this paper I wish to carry that consideration further, and I shall do that in four parts. I shall provide a little historical background to the

A widespread belief seems to be emerging, at least in the popular press, that the U.S. economy is in the throes of a fundamental transformation, one which is wiping out the 1972–95 productivity slowdown, along with inflation, the budget deficit, and the business cycle. A typical recent comment

We study the impact of correlated neuronal firing rate variability on the accuracy with which an encoded quantity can be extracted from a population of neurons. Contrary to a widespread belief, correlations in the variabilities of neuronal firing rates do not, in general, limit the increase

that have widespread detrimental effects on health rather than solely changing the habits of individuals. Further progress in this field requires building new structures for health promotion, new systems for risk reduction and greater emphasis on health policy initiatives. People's beliefs

In this paper we disprove the belief widespread within the computer graphics community that Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces cannot be evaluated directly without explicitly subdividing. We show that the surface and all its derivatives can be evaluated in terms of a set of eigenbasis functions

;The Case Against Rewards " lay out the central argument. Chapter 1 reviews the behaviorist tradition, the prevalence of pop behaviorism in our society, and some reasons (pragmatist belief systems and orthodox economic theory) for its widespread

There is a widespread belief that the general acceptance of parallel computing is being hampered by a lack of appropriate software engineering

model, we study the dynamics associated with different endogenous switching process based on the path of prices. We provide an example with an asymmetric endogenous switching process built on the dynamics of past prices. This example confirms the widespread belief that fundamentalist market behaviour

model, we study the dynamics associated with different endogenous switching process based on the path of prices. We provide an example with an asymmetric endogenous switching process built on the dynamics of past prices. This example confirms the widespread belief that fundamentalist market behaviour

Although – and probably because- the notion of belief is so widespread in the social sciences, in psychology and in philosophy, it is very often vague. There are at least two ways of ascribing beliefs to people: through their explicit avowals and through what they do. The latter criterion seems