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2
2011

  • Formatting of titles. One of the most important things to understand about bibtex is that the capitalization of titles is determined by the  bibliography style, and not by the form in which the title is given in the "title" field. Some styles use lower case titles for all bibliography entries, while others capitalize book titles, but set titles of journal articles in lower case. To allow these variations, bibtex ignores capitalization in the title field. For example, a title "Concrete Mathematics" will be set as "Concrete mathematics" if the bibliography style calls for lower case titles.  If a title includes words that should not be converted to lower case, those words need to be "protected" by enclosing the first (upper case) letter in braces. This is illustrated by the first example above: To prevent the words "Riemann Hypothesis" from being set in lower case,  enclose the letters R and H in braces: "{R}iemann {H}ypothesis".
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15
2008

A series of studies tested whether people underestimate the likelihood that others will comply with their direct requests for help. In the first 3 studies, people underestimated by as much as 50% the likelihood that others would agree to a direct request for help, across a range of requests occurring in both experimental and natural field settings. Studies 4 and 5 demonstrated that experimentally manipulating a person's perspective (as help seeker or potential helper) could elicit this underestimation effect. Finally, in Study 6, the authors explored the source of the bias, finding that help seekers were less willing than potential helpers were to appreciate the social costs of refusing a direct request for help (the costs of saying "no"), attending instead to the instrumental costs of helping (the costs of saying "yes"). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

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