Christopher Southgate on Glory and Compassion

Diagnosing goal-attribution: commentary on Hernik and Southgate.

Do 9-month-old infants construe the direct reach and grasp of a single object, sitting alone on a table, as a goaldirected action? Based on their current findings and a previous study (B r , Verschoor & Coenen, 2011), Hernik and Southgate (this issue) make the rather surprising suggestion that infants do not make this attribution. Here, we present a concern with this conclusion, specifically, t...

Christopher Love

12.091 Medical Geology/Geochemistry: Element Report IAP 2006, 01/30/2006 Christopher Love Introduction If you have ever looked carefully at your commercial container of salt sitting in the cupboard, then you have noticed that it is iodized. Have you ever wondered what that means, or why it is mentioned? The simple answer to these questions is that a form of the element, iodine, is added to the ...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...

Christopher Elliott

Choosing between Growth and Glory

Prior work has established that the financing environment can impact firm strategy. We argue that this influence can shape the earliest strategic choices of a new venture by creating a potential tradeo↵ between two objectives: rapid growth and reaping the benefits of a positive reputation (glory). We identify a simple reputation-building strategic choice, naming the firm after the founder (epon...