Let's Not Overlook Nicotine

Counterfactual seeking: The scenic overlook of the road not taken.

Decision makers faced with an opportunity to learn the outcome of a foregone alternative must balance anticipated regret, should that information be unfavorable, with the potential benefits of this information in reducing experienced regret. Counterfactual seeking, the choice to learn more about foregone alternatives, may be a functional, regret-regulating strategy for individuals already exper...

It's not WEIRD, it's WRONG: when researchers overlook uNderlying genotypes, they will not detect universal processes.

We dispute Henrich et al.'s analysis of cultural differences at the level of a narrow behavioral-expression for assessing a universalist argument. When Researchers Overlook uNderlying Genotypes (WRONG), they fail to detect universal processes that generate observed differences in expression. We reify this position with our own cross-cultural research on self-enhancement and self-esteem.

Screening programs overlook transgender people.

Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...

On Desugaring Polymorphic Lets

Existing type literature has conflicting views on desugaring polymorphic lets to lambda terms. The conflict arises because, in certain cases, desugaring does not preserve typing. We describe a transformation of polymorphic lets to monomorphic lets such that, when the monomorphic lets are desugared, the typing is preserved. Our transformation requires no changes to either term or type syntax. Th...