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As Pelias astutely argued more than two decades ago, we devote much of our waking life to critique and evaluation.¹ We assess our and others’ (re)actions. We determine whether certain foods, drinks, and flavors will quench us, give us energy, make us sick. We appreciate caring and supportive friends, family, strangers, and students, and we try to avoid those who harm us with their words and deeds. We note how bodies and desires change with time, age, circumstance. We make choices about the places we (won’t) visit and the clothing we (won’t) wear. For those of us who instruct, we assess students (e.g., grades) and they assess us (e.g., course evaluations). We may favor exciting and enthralling stories over boring and unrealistic ones, and, as academics, we often make decisions about good and not-so-good research, journals, publishers. Indeed, across a multitude of contexts, we evaluate the quality and desirability...