Crack - The Broken Promise

The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise

Promises are one of the oldest human-specific psychological mechanisms fostering cooperation and trust. Here, we study the neural underpinnings of promise keeping and promise breaking. Subjects first make a promise decision (promise stage), then they anticipate whether the promise affects the interaction partner's decision (anticipation stage) and are subsequently free to keep or break the prom...

Star-shaped crack pattern of broken windows.

Broken thin brittle plates like windows and windshields are ubiquitous in our environment. When impacted locally, they typically present a pattern of cracks extending radially outward from the impact point. We study the variation of the pattern of cracks by performing controlled transverse impacts on brittle plates over a broad range of impact speed, plate thickness, and material properties, an...

The Road to Reconciliation: Antecedents of Victim Willingness to Reconcile Following a Broken Promise

Covenant, Promise, and the Gift of Time

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

Politics and a Broken Promise: Why People Are Losing Their Physicians in Post-aca America.

THE LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT THAT MANY AMERicans had about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act [ACA] has not always been echoed by the realities of health care in our emerging delivery system. In particular, the often-repeated pledges that citizens would lose neither their insurance nor their doctor have left many feeling betrayed and abused by broken promises. Although it is true that President...