Remembering Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913)

James Davison Hunter

Emily Dickinson

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...

The Pleistocene re-wilding gambit.

Re-wilding parts of North America with exotic Old-World species is an exciting but controversial conservation proposal hijacked by opinions over appropriate conservation baselines and details of implementation. Debate over its worth has become partisan. Here, I summarize the multifaceted issues surrounding Pleistocene re-wilding and edge debate from hazy conceptual arguments to empirical questi...

Shiner–Davison–Landsberg complexity revisited

Shiner, Davison and Landsberg have recently proposed a measure of complexity that has become the subject of an intense debate. We show that using the framework of the thermodynamic formalism, the properties and shortcomings of this measure—over-universality and a trivial implementation of the temperature dependence—can be interpreted and elucidated in a coherent way. Moreover, we show how the S...

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...