When we fall in love with fictional characters – Explainer Video Animation & Video Production | Norwich | London | Curveball Media

In an experiment by the psychologist Paul Rozin, he asked educated adults to eat chocolate fudge that was shaped like dog faeces. The other option was to eat soup from a pristine, brand new bedpan. People knew the fudge was real fudge and the bedpan was clean (it would be deeply unethical if wasn’t!) But many people refused. They believed the food was clean but they ‘alieved’ it wasn’t. This could be what happens when you watch a horror movie. You know you’re safe, you don’t really believe the monster will come out of the screen and harm you. But it still seems like it could. You just ‘alieve’ it will. The feeling experienced is still very real.

Source: When we fall in love with fictional characters – Explainer Video Animation & Video Production | Norwich | London | Curveball Media

‘Losing Yourself’ In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life – Ohio State Research and Innovation Communications

Experience-taking doesn’t happen all the time. It only occurs when people are able, in a sense, to forget about themselves and their own self-concept and self-identity while reading, Kaufman said. In one experiment, for example, the researchers found that most college students were unable to undergo experience-taking if they were reading in a cubicle with a mirror.

Source: ‘Losing Yourself’ In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life – Ohio State Research and Innovation Communications

Ambivalent Men and the Women Who Love Them

The non-committal, emotionally unavailable man pairing with an overly attentive female who is willing to hang in there–no matter what–is a surprisingly common relationship. Always eager to sew wild oats, the male in this dynamic is frequently described as a “player.”

Why in this scenario does the female stay true to such a man? It may be because she believes his very aloofness makes him a more desirable catch. If she hangs in there long enough, he will eventually commit, and it will mean so much more because he was so ambivalent about her in the beginning. She sees a chance for self-validation in earning his attention when others couldn’t.

Women caught in this circular thinking rarely experience a happy romantic ending. 

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

How to Improve Intelligence Communication

See on Scoop.it – Writing, Research, Applied Thinking and Applied Theory: Solutions with Interesting Implications, Problem Solving, Teaching and Research driven solutions

what is at the root of bad Intelligence Communication?

Bad written and oral communication training in college (like everyone else!). The need to show off how smart we are … which may be particularly prevalent among intelligence and analytical functions, owing to the often difficult position of trying to influence direction from an external perspective. The need to prove we know what we’re talking about … which, again, is likely common to our positions since we are so often combating wisdom.

Sharrock‘s insight:

for writing about internationally tense situations, a perspective that can be explored in fiction

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