In July 2013, this man co-authored a paper in American Psychologist deriding Frederickson andLosada's "positivity ratio" for using fluid dynamics equations to model emotions to four significant figures.
In July 2013, this man co-authored a paper in American Psychologist deriding Frederickson andLosada's "positivity ratio" for using fluid dynamics equations to model emotions to four significant figures.In a noted article, he put parentheses around the first letter of the phrase "wholes and boundaries" andbegan with quotes from Valerie Greenberg and Stanley Aronowitz. This man said that the book HigherSuperstiion inspired his most noted action. He was accused of removing accusations about Jacques Derridafrom the French-language edition of a book he co-wrote with Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense. Herevealed in the magazine Lingua Franca that he submitted "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawningreferences, grandiose equations, and outright nonsense" to Social Text. For 10 points, name this author of"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," who lendshis name to the "hoax" which proved the worthlessness of postmodernism and "critical theory."
In July 2013, this man co-authored a paper in American Psychologist deriding Frederickson andLosada's "positivity ratio" for using fluid dynamics equations to model emotions to four significant figures.
Alan Sokal