Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
Posted on01 Oct 2012
TagsA Few Good Men, objectivity, University of North Carolina, truth, The Economist, technology, robots, reality, rationale, Personality, Kurt Gray, illusion, humans, Harvard University, euphemisms, Daniel Wegner, organizational culture, computers
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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
Tagswords, word choice, vanilla words, 1984, A Few Good Men, illusion, Tom Cruise, The Economist, sensitivity, reality, phraseology, Making Murder Respectable, labels, Jack Nicholson, glass, George Orwell, food, euphemisms, definitions, connotations, compensation, cognitive dissonance
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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
