Why A. Smith Might Have Been Right, After All

Developing Thoughts About What Might Have Been

Recent research has changed how developmental psychologists understand counterfactual thinking or thoughts of what might have been. Evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking develops over an extended period into at least middle childhood, depends on domain-general processes including executive function and language, and dissociates from counterfactual emotions such as regret. In this artic...

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Why Have Hmms Been so Successful for Automatic Speech Recognition and How Might They Be Improved?

Most of the current successful systems for automatic speech recognition are based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). HMMs are basically general-purpose statistical pattern matchers, but have so far proved more successful than approaches which have been based on specific knowledge about speech. This paper discusses the likely reasons for this success. It is argued that, in addition to providing a t...

From what might have been to what must have been: counterfactual thinking creates meaning.

Four experiments explored whether 2 uniquely human characteristics-counterfactual thinking (imagining alternatives to the past) and the fundamental drive to create meaning in life-are causally related. Rather than implying a random quality to life, the authors hypothesized and found that counterfactual thinking heightens the meaningfulness of key life experiences. Reflecting on alternative path...

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