A new Canadian study finds a plethora of unregretful — but very polite — murderers and other occupants of death row in prisons in the region of the United States of America knowns as “The South”: “Honor on Death Row — Apology, Remorse, and the Culture of Honor in the U.S. South,” Judy Eaton, SAGE […]
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A tribute to regret and regrets
Amanda Hess pays tribute, in Slate, to certain researchers [pictured here] and their research. Her tribute begins thus: College Men and Women Express Different Sexual Regrets. Could Cave People Be to Blame? In a new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of evolutionary psychologists queried 200 American college students on their greatest romantic and […]
Lottery-ticket fate-tempting in Ithaca
If you had just bought a lottery ticket, would you be willing to swap it? If you’re like most people, the answer would be an emphatic ‘No’. But why? Given that a properly-run lottery is an entirely random affair, mathematical theory dictates that your chances of winning won’t change whether you swap or not.* Academia […]