Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
Posted on01 Oct 2012
TagsKurt Gray, objectivity, Personality, rationale, reality, robots, technology, The Economist, truth, University of North Carolina, illusion, A Few Good Men, computers, organizational culture, Daniel Wegner, euphemisms, Harvard University, humans
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As computers and robots are able to perform more of the mental and physical tasks of humans, we are finding they can... Read More
Euphemisms: Preferring Illusions to Reality
Posted on02 Feb 2012
TagsA Few Good Men, 1984, cognitive dissonance, labels, words, word choice, vanilla words, Tom Cruise, The Economist, sensitivity, reality, phraseology, Making Murder Respectable, Jack Nicholson, illusion, glass, George Orwell, food, euphemisms, definitions, connotations, compensation
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Words have power, not only in their definitions but also, more importantly, in their connotations. The article, “Making Murder Respectable,” from the... Read More
