Singapore University of Social Sciences

The Epistemic Substitution Error: Why Accurate Algorithmic Decisions Can Still Be Illegitimate

Institutions increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to assess people, allocate opportunities, and justify consequential decisions. Existing debates often ask whether these systems are accurate, fair, transparent, or explainable. This article identifies a distinct philosophical...

Lending in Need: Natural Disaster Shocks and Online Borrowing in Indonesia

Natural disasters can generate urgent household liquidity needs, yet little is known about how borrowing through digital lending platforms responds to disaster exposure. Using approved-loan records from a major FinTech platform in Indonesia, this study examines the relationship b...

Governance-Aware Generative AI Literacy for Adult Higher Education

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is becoming routine in university study, yet institutional responses often separate technical fluency, academic integrity, and responsible governance. This integrative conceptual synthesis develops governance-aware GenAI literacy for adu...

Human or AI-generated synthetic cause agents? Perceived organizational empathy and prosocial engagement in charitable communication

Purpose This study examines consumer responses to human versus AI-generated synthetic cause agents in charitable communication. It tests whether cause agent type affects three prosocial engagement outcomes with the cause, namely information seeking, willingness to donate and shar...

Beyond Zoom: A Socio-Temporal Framework for Leading Fragmented Teams in the New Era of Work

The widespread adoption of remote, hybrid, and distributed work models represents a fundamental paradigm shift in the modern workplace. While initial discourse focused on the implementation of communication technologies, organizations now face deeper challenges in fostering cohes...

SEZ-HARN: Self-explainable Zero-shot Human Activity Recognition Network

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data has numerous applications in healthcare and assisted living. However, its deployment in real-world scenarios is constrained by the limited availability of labeled datasets covering diverse activities and...

Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascades in the U.S.-Iran War: A Partially Observable Dynamic Game of Global Energy-Macroeconomic Tail Risk

This paper develops the Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascade Model (EECCM), a hybrid mathematical framework for forecasting the probabilistic narrative arc and global economic tail risk of the U.S.-Iran war. The central outcome is not a point forecast of oil prices. It is...

Independent Ageing Amongst Older Adults Who Live Alone: Social Networks and Support in Singapore

ABSTRACT This paper examines how older adults who live alone draw on local and extra‐local social ties—including kinship relations, community networks, and friendships—to age independently in Singapore. Conceptually, it engages with extant debates on the hierarchical‐compensatory...

Uncovering pedagogical beliefs in adult education and training: a q-methodology study of educators’ priorities and practices

Abstract This study examines the pedagogical beliefs and priorities of adult educators in Singapore’s adult education and training sector, where national skills policies, competency-based training frameworks, and employer-facing programmes have shaped expectations of quality, rel...

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. Th...

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. Th...

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. T...

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. T...

Agentic AI and the Dissolution of Managerial Authority: Organisational Sensegiving in Autonomous Decision-Making Systems

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting from decision support to autonomous coordination, challenging established assumptions about managerial authority. This qualitative conceptual paper synthesises recent literature in algorithmic management, organisational theory, and...

Agentic AI and the Dissolution of Managerial Authority: Organisational Sensegiving in Autonomous Decision-Making Systems

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting from decision support to autonomous coordination, challenging established assumptions about managerial authority. This qualitative conceptual paper synthesises recent literature in algorithmic management, organisational theory, and...

The Conjunctive Misfortune Problem: Behavioural Tail Risk, Outcome Luck, and Punishment Cascades

A serious behavioural failure may be uncommon within a person’s history yet become the principal basis for judgments of character and future risk. This conceptual article develops the conjunctive misfortune problem: adverse conditions, culpable action, stochastic harm, categorica...

Convergence Analysis of Controlled Particle Systems Arising in Deep Learning: From Finite to Infinite Sample Size

Abstract This paper deals with a class of neural SDEs and studies the limiting behavior of the associated sampled optimal control problems as the sample size grows to infinity. The neural SDEs with N samples can be linked to the N -particle systems with centralized control. We an...

Narrative Hysteresis: The Presumption Gap, Gendered Epistemic Risk, and Reputational Non-Reversibility After Public Accusation

Legal systems can reverse convictions, dismiss charges, and acquit defendants, but public narratives are not designed to reverse with comparable speed or precision. This article develops narrative hysteresis as a theory of reputational path dependence after public accusation. It...

The Status-Punishment Paradox: Status-Amplified Schadenfreude, Moralized Reputational Aggression, and the Digital Afterlife of Punishment

Why can prior achievement become a liability after wrongdoing? This conceptual article integrates research on tall-poppy effects, social comparison, schadenfreude, moral outrage, public shaming, news values, and criminal-record stigma into a theory of the Status-Punishment Parado...

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

Artificial intelligence is usually analysed as a productivity technology, a labour-market shock, or a governance problem. This article argues that its deeper political significance may arise from a fourth channel: ontological displacement. Ontological displacement occurs when a t...