February 2010
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Viddler: Proper Snow Running Technique
With the horrible road conditions, this is how I got to my classes today.
The Rhyme-As-Reason Effect
Drake Bennett on “cognitive fluency”:
Matthew McGlone, a psychologist at the University of Texas, has found that auditory cues can shape people’s perception of truth. McGlone did a study in which he presented subjects with a series of unfamiliar aphorisms either in rhyming or nonrhyming form: “Woes unite foes,” for example, versus “Woes unite enemies.” He found that people tended to...