173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words?

What happens when three psychologists walk into a magic show? What’s Angela’s problem with the word “talent”? And why does LeBron James refer to himself in the third person?

SOURCES:

John Bargh • , professor of psychology at Yale University. Derren Brown • , mentalist. Carol Dweck • , professor of psychology at Stanford University. Daniel Kahneman • , professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University. Ethan Kross • , professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Barbara Mellers • , professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Daniel Southwick • , visiting professor of psychology at Brigham Young University and former N.F.L. quarterback. Lior Suchard • , mentalist.

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• " 4 Ways to Get Into the Magic Castle • ," by Stephanie Breijo ( TimeOut, • 2023). • " The Trouble With Talent: Semantic Ambiguity in the Workplace • ," by Daniel A. Southwick, Zhaoying V. Liu, Chayce Baldwin, Abigail L. Quirk, Lyle H. Ungar, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Angela L. Duckworth ( Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, • 2023). • " A Decade of Power Posing: Where Do We Stand? • " by Tom Loncar ( The Psychologist, • 2021). • " Influencing Choices With Conversational Primes: How a Magic Trick Unconsciously Influences Card Choices • ," by Alice Pailhès and Gustav Kuhn ( PNAS, • 2020). • " If You Want Your Marketing Campaign To Succeed, Choose Your Words Carefully • ," by Allan Hug ( Forbes, • 2019). • " What's Next for Psychology's Embattled Field of Social Priming • ," by Tom Chivers ( Nature, • 2019). • " Silent Third Person Self-Talk Facilitates Emotion Regulation • ," by Christopher Bergland ( Psychology Today, • 2017). • " Disputed Results a Fresh Blow for Social Psychology • ," by Alison Abbott ( Scientific American, • 2013). • " A Proposal to Deal With Questions About Priming Effects • ," email by Daniel Kahneman (2012). • " Behavioral Priming: It's All in the Mind, but Whose Mind? • " by Stéphane Doyen, Olivier Klein, Cora-Lise Pichon, and Axel Cleeremans ( PLoS One, • 2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow, • by Daniel Kahneman (2011).