This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding issue of Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, hypothesis has status both “not proven” and unfalsified. The analyzes a number reasons for this situation, including effects multi-competence, which remove any possibility that competence in more than one language can ever be identical monol...

This article aims to approach the phenomenon of cringe in four steps: First, from a sociological perspective, distinction between shame and embarrassment is discussed working definition developed that conceives this difference as situational rather than essential. In second step, will be used examine more closely how actors’ self-representation decomposed reality format Wife Swap what role crin...

It is a privilege that some of the most promising contributors to public health ethics took the time to think and comment on my op-ed. Kristin Voigt’s (1), Emma Tieffenbach’s (2), and Yashar Saghai’s (3) ingenious comments have taught me a lot about nudging, embarrassment, and restriction. Let me address their main points one by one. Kristin Voigt makes two points. One is that nudging by shamin...

In the introduction to the special issue "The Neural Underpinnings of Vicarious Experience" the editors state that one "may feel embarrassed when witnessing another making a social faux pas". In our commentary we address this statement and ask whether this example introduces a vicarious or an empathic form of embarrassment. We elaborate commonalities and differences between these two forms of e...

The theory of PBW properties of quadratic algebras, to which this paper aims to be a modest contribution, originates from the pioneering work of Drinfeld (see [Dr1]). In particular, as we learned after publication of [EG] (to the embarrassment of two of us!), symplectic reflection algebras and even more general reflection algebras considered in Section 3.6 below, as well as PBW theorems for the...