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How Do I Remember That I Know You Know That I Know?
“I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time,” says the character Aaron in the 1987 movie Broadcast News. He and the woman he’s talking to have a lot of Visit Page
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What use of pronouns reveals about personality
The Boston Globe: The way in which we use pronouns like I, you, or him — or choose not to use them — reveals quite a bit about our personalities but not necessarily in the Visit Page
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The Book Bench
The New Yorker: In the News: Out on a Limn, Pronoun Psychology The composer Philip Glass will publish a memoir with Norton. Remember the uproar over the critic Michiko Kakutani’s (over)use of the word “limn”? Visit Page
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The Secret Language Code
Scientific American: Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Pennebaker Visit Page
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Modeling Cognition
Philip Johnson-Laird, studies how people infer and deduce the possibility and probability of something happening. He has developed computer programs which quantify the validity of certain deductions, paving the way toward greater understanding of deductive Visit Page
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Illuminating Speech Impairment in People With Autism
Morton Ann Gernsbacher’s research has for 20 years investigated the processes and mechanisms that underlie language processing. She empirically challenged the view that language processing involves language-specific mechanisms by proposing that, instead, it draws on Visit Page
