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nat bas

Thinking literally - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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shared by nat bas on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Metaphors aren’t just how we talk and write, they’re how we think. At some level, we actually do seem to understand temperament as a form of temperature, and we expect people’s personalities to behave accordingly. What’s more, without our body’s instinctive sense for temperature--or position, texture, size, shape, or weight--abstract concepts like kindness and power, difficulty and purpose, and intimacy and importance would simply not make any sense to us.
  • Put another way, metaphors reveal the extent to which we think with our bodies.
  • "The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought,” says John Bargh, a psychology professor at Yale and leading researcher in this realm.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche scornfully described human understanding as nothing more than a web of expedient metaphors, stitched together from our shallow impressions of the world. In their ignorance, he charged, people mistake these familiar metaphors, deadened from overuse, for truths. "We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers,” he wrote, "and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things--metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”
  • people asked to recall a time when they were ostracized gave lower estimates of room temperature than those who recalled a social inclusion experience.
  • subjects who took the questionnaire on the heavier clipboards tended to ascribe more metaphorical weight to the questions they were asked
  • we actually unconsciously look upward when we think about power
  • subjects, after handling sandpaper-covered puzzle pieces, were less likely to describe a social situation as having gone smoothly
  • people who were told to move marbles from a lower tray up to a higher one while recounting a story told happier stories than people moving them down
  • subjects who recalled an unethical act acted less guilty after washing their hands.
  • something as simple as sitting on a hard chair makes people think of a task as harder
  • nat bas on 02 Oct 09
     
    this is a wonderful essay: how metaphors shape the world we see.
Robert Kamper

Pain is more intense when inflicted on purpose - The Harvard University Gazette - 0 views

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shared by Robert Kamper on 06 Jan 09 - Cached
  • The study’s authors suggest that intended and unintended harm cause different amounts of pain because they differ in meaning. “From decoding language to understanding gestures, the mind distills meaning from our social environment,” says Gray. “An intended harm has a very different meaning from an accidental harm.”
Sue Frantz

Scientist at Work - James W. Pennebaker - Psychologist James Pennebaker Counts, and Ana... - 0 views

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  • Sue Frantz on 18 Oct 08
     
    "James W. Pennebaker's interest in word counting began more than 20 years ago, when he did several studies suggesting that people who talked about traumatic experiences tended to be physically healthier than those who kept such experiences secret. He wondered how much could be learned by looking at every single word people used - even the tiny ones, the I's and you's, a's and the's."
Todd Suomela

Language Log » David Brooks, Social Psychologist - 0 views

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  • Todd Suomela on 14 Aug 08
     
    Nice review of research on geographic differences in word-sorting and mental categories. Mentions the research of Richard Nisbett, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why.
Caramel Crow

Cognition and Language Lab: Why admissions interviews should be abandoned - 0 views

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Mike Finney

WEIRD Science: We Are the Weirdest People in the World | Psychology Today - 0 views

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shared by Mike Finney on 29 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • researchers recommend
  • incentivize them to use wider subject pools
  • assist them in international collaborations
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  • Language is the easy change which will make a difference
  • American undergraduate is 4,000 times more likely to be a subject in a psychology experiment
Sarah Eeee

*A Brain Scientist's Take on Writing*: What Mirror Images and Foreign Scripts Tell Us A... - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Eeee on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • For most adults in literate countries, reading is so well practiced that it’s reflexive. If the words are there, it's impossible not to read.
  • If you raise a child on a desert island, he'll learn to eat, walk, and sleep, but odds are he won't spontaneously pick up a stick and start writing. For most of human history, written language didn't even exist. Reading as a cultural invention has only been around for a few thousand years, a snap of a finger in evolutionary terms.
  • we’re very good at seeing, and the trick is just to retune that machinery to the demands of reading.
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  • But even on a basic visual level, we have to somewhat reprogram our visual systems.
  • Mirror invariance, the idea that something flipped sideways is still the same object, is a core property of our visual systems, and for good reason.
  • What's the mirror image of b? Now it's a completely different letter: d.
  • Mirror reversal is overwhelmingly common in beginning writers, from the occasional flipped letter to whole words written as a mirror image. Kids do this spontaneously. They never actually see flipped letters in the world around them. It's as if their brains are too powerful for the task.
  • With practice however, we do retrain our brains to read
  • Does the brain of a reader look different from that of a nonreader?
  • Since blood flow is tied to brain activity, fMRI allows us to see the patches of brain involved in different tasks.
    • Sarah Eeee
      Sarah Eeee on 22 Dec 10
       
      Bit of an oversimplification, no?
  • They found that most participants did indeed have a brain region that responded more to words than objects.
  • This is rather remarkable, that the brain would develop a specialized area for an artificial category of images.
  • need more proof that this region developed as a result of learning to read.
  • If reading experience does alter the brain, you would expect English readers and English/Hebrew readers to have different brain responses to Hebrew. And this is indeed what Baker found. The bilingual readers had high activation for both Hebrew and English in their word region, while monolingual English readers only had high activation for English.
  • Sarah Eeee on 22 Dec 10
     
    Interesting & quick post on research into the neurological basis of reading.
dev j

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    Welcome to Manuscriptedit.com, your online partner for English language editing, proofreading, medical writing, formatting, design & development and publication support services. We offer a comprehensive manuscript editing service before its submission for publication as well as after acceptance by the peer review process.
Felix Gryffeth

Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Felix Gryffeth on 20 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Felix Gryffeth on 20 Jan 15
     
    "smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics"
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How to Use the NLP Swish Pattern to Redefine Self-Image - 0 views

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  • Hypnosis Training Academy on 06 Jul 17
     
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How to Lose Weight Using Hypnosis: A 5-Step Guide - 0 views

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