Talk the Talk
Once we get past blood-lust, misogyny and an insatiable desire for saturated fat presented in peculiar forms, language is probably the defining feature of humanity. Thus it’s unsurprising that some psychologists think that human behavior is defined by language, rather than through some cognitive super-controller that oversees our every action.
Discursive psychology, the study of how language impacts human behaviour, would expect to see investors swayed by use of language in a way that more rationalist theories would not. Language deployed by the financial media might, for instance, be employed to promote buying or selling of stocks regardless of their fundamental attractions or otherwise. Which, of course, is a stupid idea and therefore, inevitably, looks like it’s probably correct.
Once we get past blood-lust, misogyny and an insatiable desire for saturated fat presented in peculiar forms, language is probably the defining feature of humanity. Thus it’s unsurprising that some psychologists think that human behavior is defined by language, rather than through some cognitive super-controller that oversees our every action.
Discursive psychology, the study of how language impacts human behaviour, would expect to see investors swayed by use of language in a way that more rationalist theories would not. Language deployed by the financial media might, for instance, be employed to promote buying or selling of stocks regardless of their fundamental attractions or otherwise. Which, of course, is a stupid idea and therefore, inevitably, looks like it’s probably correct.
