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Weiye Loh

Why Concrete Language Communicates Truth - PsyBlog - 0 views

  • Verbs as well as nouns can be more or less abstract. Verbs like 'count' and 'write' are solid, concrete and unambiguous, while verbs like 'help' and 'insult' are open to some interpretation.
  • Even a verb's tense can affect its perceived concreteness. The passive tense is usually thought more abstract, because it doesn't refer to the actor by name. Perhaps that's partly why fledgling writers are often told to write in the active tense: to the reader it will seem more true.
  • three reasons why concreteness suggests truth: Our minds process concrete statements more quickly, and we automatically associate quick and easy with true (check out these studies on the power of simplicity). We can create mental pictures of concrete statements more easily. When something is easier to picture, it's easier to recall, so seems more true. Also, when something is more easily pictured it seems more plausible, so it's more readily believed.
Gideon Burton

My Arabic Mission: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" - 0 views

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    An interesting example of a photo essay post from a student abroad. Note the thematic continuity across the pictures and in relation to the interspersed poem.
Bri Zabriskie

Also bought this the other day. A copy of Huckleberry Finn pr... on Twitpic - 0 views

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    SOmeone tweeted a picture of their original 1945 copy of Huck Finn :)
Bri Zabriskie

ImageChef - Customize Photos, Clip Art - 0 views

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    mentioned in class
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