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the movie Dr. Strangelove. President Kennedy was assassinated shortly before the movie was completed, and in post-production Stanley Kubrick had Slim Pickens dub the word “Vegas” over the word “Dallas” in one of his lines. “I always heard ...more
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Mehdi Hasan
“Consider this: when you’re trying to change someone’s feelings or attitudes, your words account for just 7 percent of your overall message. Seven percent. That’s it. In contrast, your tone of voice accounts for 38 percent of it, and your body language accounts for a colossal 55 percent. This is the famous 7-38-55 rule, or concept, which Albert Mehrabian, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, came up with in 1971 in his book Silent Messages.”
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“Republicans often win because “they have a near-monopoly in the marketplace of emotions,” while Democrats continue to naively “place their stock in the marketplace of ideas.”
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Tim Harford
“Neuroscientific studies suggest that the brain responds in much the same anxious way to facts that threaten our preconceptions as it does to wild animals that threaten our lives.”
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Janelle Shane
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