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...laughing out loud, or “OMG” to a legitimately shocking event? Taken together these phrases indicate a pattern of falsely self-representing oneself as being in a heightened emotional state. Perhaps overcompensation of emotion in these electronic messages stems from the lessening of actual human contact we experience over digital mediums. In any case, our communications, in almost every occasion, become more exclamatory than the real life interaction would be. Rather than having writing serve as a true means of expression when we are physically out of reach, these threads operate with different meanings and usages...
Marcel E. Moran ’11, a former Crimson associate editorial editor, is a human evolutionary biology concentrator in Eliot House...
Keenan also cites the poet James V. Tate, known for his playful musings on human absurdism, as an additional source of motivation. Keenan says that he identifies with Tate’s “sense of humor” and his “self-alienated relationship to society...
...That’s where you come back to the tremendous importance of early experience, which human child psychiatrists and psychologists are now talking about all the time. And interestingly, it was the early child psychologists who were far more interested in what I brought back from Gombe than any of the ethologists, because of the mother-infant relationship that I had found...
...What impact has your observation and research had on your interactions with other human beings...