Word: bullshitting
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Studies like Cohen's help ground a young and sometimes fluffy field in hard science, says conference chairman Chris Peterson of the University of Michigan. "It's very, very careful, creative research," he says, while conceding, "There's a temptation to bullshit in positive psychology...
...person, to writing letters, to talking on the phone, to writing e-mails, to, once again, speaking face-to-face, whether from opposite ends of the globe or from opposite ends of the classroom. Vid chat is the closest thing to the real thing. No more of this abbreviating bullshit: “heyyyy.” “sup?” “nm, u?” “brb.” “k.” Those days are, thankfully, coming to an end. Give your fingers a rest...
...psychology book, “Mindfucking” by Colin McGinn, has emerged to expose worrying weaknesses of the human psyche. The author, a prolific figure in the analytical school of philosophy, was inspired partly by Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 treatise “On Bullshit,” which scrutinized our use of another pseudo-expletive. The eponymous phenomenon is one of mental manipulation, a “rhetorical abuse or sleight-of-hand” that involves “a fundamental restructuring of outlook, often with deep emotional resonance, and frequently coupled with resistance...
...calories a day and $8 a week: "It was a strange calculation, and by all acounts a dangerous one ... Could I do it again? I don't know. Would I? I'm even less sure. But I do know this: Hunger is power. And everything else is bullshit...
...person who’s participating for the sake of participating: Eventually you will realize that most of your irritation stems from how much you identify with this person. In the meantime though, use it to your advantage that this one is a chronic self-contradictor. Recycle his bullshit into yours. 3) Avoiding eye contact with the TF after an impossible question’s been asked: Head down. Write. Write as much as you can in that notebook of yours and don’t look up. This screams “genius-flowing-no-interruptions...