“If Only I Had Done Better”: Perfectionism and the Functionality of Counterfactual Thinking

“If only I could stop generating counterfactual thoughts”: When counterfactual thinking interferes with academic performance☆

If I Only Had A Brane!

This thesis starts with a review of supersymmetric solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity; in particular flat M-branes and BPS configurations which can be constructed from them. The harmonic function rule is discussed and it is shown why this cannot be expected to apply to intersecting brane configurations where the intersection is localised. A new class of spacetimes is needed to cover these...

Scarecrow: If I only had AI

At the 1992 AAAI robot contest one of the top finishers was Scarecrow – a robot that had no computer in the traditional sense, was built out of less than $200 of parts, and was explained and operated by a five year old. The designers sought to demonstrate the capabilities and competence that can be accomplished by using a strictly reactive architecture for well defined tasks such as that contes...

Indicative and counterfactual 'only if' conditionals.

We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a conditional of the form 'A only if B' compared to 'if A then B'. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative mood (e.g., A occurred only if B occurred) and counterfactuals in the subjunctive mood (A would have occurred only if B had occurred). The first experiment examines the conjuncti...

If I had...Cataract.

in some cities in the USA,6 but the general level of health consciousness and the public attitude to family medicine and emergency care are so different in the USA that it is far from clear that American experience is relevant to the United Kingdom. The number of lives that MCCUs can be expected to save in the United Kingdom is therefore small, so establishing MCCU services on a wider basis mus...