Dr Baltimore says "sorry"

When the happy victimizer says sorry: children's understanding of apology and emotion.

Previous research suggests that children gradually understand the mitigating effects of apology on damage to a transgressor's reputation. However, little is known about young children's insights into the central emotional implications of apology. In two studies, children ages 4-9 heard stories about moral transgressions in which the wrongdoers either did or did not apologize. In Study 1, childr...

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It has been found that listeners with sensorineural hearing loss who show similar patterns of consonant confusions also tend to have similar audiometric profiles. The present study determined whether normal listeners, presented with filtered speech, would produce consonant confusions similar to those previously reported for the hearing-impaired listener. Consonant confusion matrices were obtain...

Better Safe than Sorry

common to all species (although the evidence for this appears weak; Flather et al. 2011), then the SAFE index is merely a measure of N. The need for the logarithmic transformation in the SAFE index is unsupported. Clements et al. claim that the SAFE index improves communication of “distance” from extinction. However, the general public, donors, and policy makers will understand the implications...

’Sorry’ is the hardest word

We are interested in the ways that language is used to achieve a variety of goals, where the same utterance may have vastly different consequences in different situations. This is closely related to the topic of creativity in language. The fact that the same utterance can be used to achieve a variety of goals opens up the possibility of using it to achieve new goals. The current paper concentra...