{"id":610,"date":"2018-09-29T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:05","slug":"an-apology-after-the-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/an-apology-after-the-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"An Apology After the Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evening after the Honorable Brett Kavanagh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he apologized to Senator Klobuchar\u00a0regarding his response to her:\u00a0\u201cShe asked me a question at the end, and I responded by asking her a question and I\u2019m sorry I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indisputably.org\/?p=13326\">This article<\/a> has an interesting perspective on that apology. The author notes how an apology can short-change the opportunity to deal fully with an offense and all its effects. She asserts that studies show that people appreciate apologies even when they are incomplete or insincere. I&#8217;ve seen other studies establishing that a bad (incomplete, insincere, self-serving, etc.) apology is actually worse than saying nothing. (See, e.g., Jennifer Robbenolt, \u201cApologies and Legal Settlement: An Empirical Examination.\u201d 102 Michigan Law Review 460, 497 (2003))<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also true that people of goodwill often appreciate the offender&#8217;s efforts at an apology, even if its content is less than satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evening after the Honorable Brett Kavanagh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he apologized to Senator Klobuchar\u00a0regarding his response to her:\u00a0\u201cShe asked me a question at the end, and I responded by asking her a question and I\u2019m sorry I did that.\u201d This article has an interesting perspective on that apology. The author notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}