by snarly | Aug 15, 2023 | Scientific apologies
A crucial element of a good apology is understanding the difference between explanation and excuse. Many of us mess this up. An explanation offers context that’s helpful to the person receiving the apology; an excuse offers context that’s designed to make...
by snarly | Jun 30, 2021 | Scientific apologies
Conventional wisdom holds that apologies make you look weak. Our last president resolutely refused to apologize for anything for four years. Americans love to mock Canadian and British people for their lily-livered, knee-jerk, obsessive apologizing. (Here, we’ll do...
by snarly | Aug 27, 2018 | Academic apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
One half of Team SorryWatch is now off in the desert, perhaps with no pants on, perhaps not. (This was a reference to one of our most popular posts, in which Sumac reported about a camp at Burning Man that specialized in helping people apologize. It’s a great...
by snarly | Apr 15, 2016 | Academic apologies, Apology Essentials, Scientific apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Time to look at a new “how to apologize” study! The paper, called “An Exploration of the Structure of Effective Apologies,” will be published in the May 2016 issue of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. (You can read the abstract...
by sumac | Jun 11, 2015 | Scientific apologies
Tim Hunt is a biochemist, co-winner of a Nobel Prize in the Physiology or Medicine category (along with Leland Hartwell and Paul Nurse). The prize was for work elucidating how proteins like cyclins control cell division. Sounds like he can be a smart person when he...
by snarly | May 2, 2015 | Scientific apologies
Warning. I am crankier than usual right now. I’m still in a fury about serial domestic violence perpetrator Floyd Mayweather being protected by the entire city of Las Vegas and getting paid a gazillion dollars to beat someone up (at least that guy signed on for...
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