This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: From the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts comes the whiteboarding of experimental psychologist Steven Pinker’s illuminating talk, “Language as a Window into Human Nature,” which asks and answers the question “why do we feel more comfortable being indirect when there is no uncertainty about what we really mean?”
(Make sure to stick around for the bonus relevancy @ 8:05: “Why are political revolutions triggered when a crowd gathers in a public square?”)
[misterhonk.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
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A ten minute overview of human nature…
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Personally, I think it’s a little more complex than this. There...explicitness is more...
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I can’t wait for the language part of cognition. It better meet my expectations.
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This is why I love studying linguistics!
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Interesting! Especially the part about political assemblies.
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