Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
Posted on01 Oct 2012
TagsPersonality, organizational culture, Daniel Wegner, euphemisms, Harvard University, humans, illusion, Kurt Gray, objectivity, computers, rationale, reality, robots, technology, The Economist, truth, University of North Carolina, A Few Good Men
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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
Tags1984, A Few Good Men, cognitive dissonance, compensation, connotations, definitions, euphemisms, food, George Orwell, glass, illusion, Jack Nicholson, labels, Making Murder Respectable, phraseology, reality, sensitivity, The Economist, Tom Cruise, vanilla words, word choice, words
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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
