Do you speak chemistry?

Do you speak chemistry?

I n his famous fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, British writer and Professor of English Language and Literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, invented the Ents: tree-like creatures who were some of the oldest beings in his fantasy world of Middle-earth. In Tolkien’s story, the Ents used a unique and ancient language to communicate with each other in a very deliberate way. Tolkien described this langua...

[Do you speak jackal or giraffe?].

Do you speak the language of dyspnea?

Le Cash-Flow or Do You Speak Franglais Revisited

Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects were required to state their own preferences in this scenario. In the second, subjects were asked to state how they believed an average student would respond to the choices. In ...