Carolyn Olson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carolyn Olson plays a role.
Article
1998 Infant Cries As Evolutionary Melodrama: Extortion or Deception? Evolution of Communication 2:1, pp. 25–43 | Article
Crying is melodramatic in the sense that crying babies seem to respond to a great variety of distressing situations with behaviors, such as gasping, choking, and panting that would be appropriate to a very specific respiratory emergency. In this paper we develop models to explore whether extortion… read more