Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages “Experiments with ums or uhs spliced in or out of speech show that when words are preceded by disfluencies, listeners recognize them faster and remember them more accurately. In some cases, disfluencies allow listeners to make useful predictions about what they’re about to hear.”
Monthly Archives: March 2018
This Is How To Easily Make Your Relationships Awesome: 4 Secrets
2018.03.19 – 13:49
This Is How To Easily Make Your Relationships Awesome: 4 Secrets “They say, “It’s a beautiful day.” From a bid perspective, there are three types of responses: You can “turn toward” the bid: “Wow, it really is.” You can “turn against” the bid: “What are you talking about? Looks just like yesterday.” You can “turn […]
Everything I’ve Learned About Gun Control
2018.03.16 – 11:43
Everything I’ve Learned About Gun Control “However, a lot of these existing laws are poorly enforced. Tens of thousands of felons or fugitives attempt to buy guns each year and are not prosecuted. Straw purchasers are under-prosecuted. Federal background check databases are incomplete, and federal agencies routinely fuck up and allow people to buy guns […]
The Nordic Glass Ceiling
2018.03.12 – 16:04
The Nordic Glass Ceiling “Nordic welfare institutions influence work incentives for women in a number of ways. The Nordic welfare system has been designed to encourage parents to engage in market work while benefiting from various forms of public funding. But research suggests that national paid and unpaid leave policies, work entitlements, and other family […]
Why California Politics Is Always 15 Years Ahead
2018.03.12 – 09:50
Why California Politics Is Always 15 Years Ahead “The clearest example of this trailblazing is the modern conservative ascendance, starring Ronald Reagan himself. Reagan ushered in the conservative era of California politics when he was elected governor in 1966. He beat a two-term incumbent liberal Democrat, Pat Brown (father of Jerry Brown) and muscled out […]
Why White Evangelicalism is so Cruel
2018.03.12 – 09:40
Why White Evangelicalism is so Cruel “White Evangelical Christians opposed desegregation tooth and nail. Where pressed, they made cheap, cosmetic compromises, like Billy Graham’s concession to allow black worshipers at his crusades. Graham never made any difficult statements on race, never appeared on stage with his “black friend” Martin Luther King after 1957, and he […]
A Tale of Two Moralities, Part One: Regional Inequality and Moral Polarization
2018.03.11 – 10:42
A Tale of Two Moralities, Part One: Regional Inequality and Moral Polarization “The good news is that anti-elite anybody-but-Hillary-ism doesn’t really imply serious public appetite for anything like alt-right authoritarianism. The bad news is that the liberal-democratic capitalist welfare state and the so-called ‘neoliberal’ global order is far and away the best humanity has ever […]
SSC Journal Club: Friston On Computational Mood
2018.03.08 – 09:27
SSC Journal Club: Friston On Computational Mood from: March 8, 2018 at 09:26AM
People are dying because we misunderstand how addicts think
2018.03.05 – 18:12
People are dying because we misunderstand how addicts think from: March 5, 2018 at 05:22PM
This Is What The Best Teams And Families All Do: 3 Rituals From Research
2018.03.04 – 10:36
This Is What The Best Teams And Families All Do: 3 Rituals From Research from: March 4, 2018 at 09:04AM