The easiest word

• Autores: Moya Sarner
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3130, 2017, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Sarner discussed why people apologize so much. A third of British adults think they apologize excessively in everyday conversations and a quarter of Americans would apologize if someone else bumped into them. It is with good reason that academics from science, history and politics have named theirs the "Age of Apology". Much of the recent discussion on over-apologizing has focused on the idea that women are particularly prone to it. One survey on the problem found that 44% of women thought that women tend to apologize too much, whereas just 5% them thought this was true of men. Men on the other hand tended to think that women and men both "got it about right".