New research from the psychologists Andy Yap, Dana Carney, and colleagues suggests that people who assume expansive power poses, such as standing with their feet shoulder-width apart and their hands on their hips, become, consciously or not, more likely to steal money or cheat on a test. few years ago, acting on a tip, school administrators at Great Neck North High School, a prominent, academically competitive public school in Long Island, took a closer look at studentsâ standardized test scores. Some of them seemed suspiciously high.
The hard palate is important for feeding and speech. Mammals with a defective hard palate may die shortly after birth due to inability to suckle (see Cleft palate below). It is also involved in mastication in many species. The interaction between the tongue and the hard palate is essential in the formation of certain speech sounds, notably /Ê/ , /Ê/ , /j/ , and /É/ .
A cleft palate that occurs without a cleft of the lip almost always affects the back of the palate, but the amount of the rest of the palate that is affected is very variable. It can affect only part of the soft palate, the whole soft palate or the whole soft palate and part of the hard palate. There is a type of cleft that can be difficult to see. A submucous cleft palate is when the muscles of the soft palate have a gap, but the lining of the palate doesnât have a gap, so it looks similar to a normal palate.