The Catholic trouble with justification: comments on Scott Hahn’s Romans

Comments on "Trouble in paradise".

There are statements I wish to protest in the Focus article "Trouble in Paradise" by John F. Lauerman published in Environmental Health Perspectives [105:914-917 (1997)]. These statements appear to have been attributed to me, but I can assure you I would never have made them. First, there is the suggestion that I included atrazine among a list of agricultural chemicals used in pineapple cultiva...

Trouble with Overconfidence 1 Running head: TROUBLE WITH OVERCONFIDENCE The Trouble with Overconfidence

This paper presents a reconciliation of the three distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) excessive precision in one’s beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first two (apparent underconfidence), when they occur, tend to be on ...

Which Romans do “ as Romans do ” ? Individual

Which Romans do "as Romans do"? Individual differences in conformity to cultural conflict resolution scripts Abstract The current research investigates the proposal that cross-cultural differences in conflict resolution choices are driven by culturally conferred cognitive scripts—expectancies about appropriate actions in a setting and outcomes they will evoke. Cognitive styles such as Need for ...

The trouble with translation

The Trouble with Cases

The recent hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's and Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nominations to the Supreme Court vividly exemplify the enthusiastic concurrence between the senators and the nominee that judges make neither law nor policy. Judges decide particular cases between particu­ lar litigants, the questioners and the responders agree, and in doing so they apply laws and policies made b...