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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Overshadowing Effect of Language
The overshadowing effect, i am sure if you mention that term, but from the section where i talk about this in the book, there's more recent work about verbal overshadowing. So experiments would include seeing a robbery. You watch a video of bank robbery, and you see the perpetrator's face. And with one group of people in the experiment, you are asked to describe the purpose trators face as accurately as you can. The other group who were told, yer, this is a dumb bell, would make the line straighter than it was in the original drawing,. so theyre clearly being affected by the way in which language had kind of got them to construe what they
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