BACKGROUND The sound-induced flash illusion is an auditory-visual illusion--when a single flash is presented along with two or more beeps, observers report seeing two or more flashes. Previous research has shown that the illusion gradually disappears as the temporal delay between auditory and visual stimuli increases, suggesting that the illusion is consistent with existing temporal rules of ne...

This dissertation is an exploration of people’s estimates of control, with a particular focus on the illusion of control. Ellen Langer’s 1975 article introduced the illusion of control as “an expectancy of a personal success probability inappropriately higher than the objective probability would warrant.” Since her work, subsequent research has focused on factors, such as mood, intention, and c...

Let A be a complete discrete valuation ring with possibly imperfect residue field, and let χ be a one-dimensional Galois representation over A. I show that the non-logarithmic variant of Kato’s Swan conductor is the same for χ and the pullback of χ to the generic residual perfection of A. This implies the conductor from “Conductors and the moduli of residual perfection” [4] extends the non-loga...

Conditional Perfection is argued to arise when a sentence is silently conjoined with an exhaustivized version of the same string. The proposed account, the ‘whole truth theory’, is argued to not only capture Conditional Perfection but to also extend to upper-bounding inferences and exhaustive answers. A crucial piece of the analysis is the independently supported claim that bare conditionals ar...