Expand Your Mind: a Study of Studies
by Miki Saxon
Organic foods may make you less generous. Men are dumber around women. People filter language through their fingers. New fathers pay less. Women use red to impress men.
Fascinating nuggets and just a small sample of the topics that are/have been researched and studied.
In the spirit of TMI, I found an op-ed lamenting the current fixation on sharing all life’s’ details to be hilarious.
But there is a new urge to behave as if life were some global high-school reunion at which everyone has taken some horrific tell-all drug.
A few days later I saw a study from Harvard explaining why.
Her goal: to determine when we’re most likely to divulge intimate facts and when we’re apt to keep our lives to ourselves.
TMI has another incarnation in the form of the not-bragging brag, which is truly annoying.
Enter the self-deprecating boast known as the “humblebrag,” a term devised by the comedian Harris Wittels, a writer for the NBC series “Parks and Recreation…”
Finally, if you love words as I do, it is interesting to note that similar sensationalism is found in the hard copy world, too.
Last week, the British newspaper The Guardian broke a story from the dictionary world that seemed, at first blush, to be quite scandalous indeed.
PS Sorry to be so late. I wrote this and forgot to click publish:(
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