Psycho Babble

Previous posts

• A Mind to Navigate
• N. K. Y. S. A.
• Where’s the “The”?
• Magic Fingers
• Time Traveling Through a Sentence
• CAPTCHA That Bot!
• The Internet Remembers
• Hardwired for Talk?
• Kiki or Bouba?
• My Feeling for 11 Is Almost One of Pity
• The Allure of the Intuitive
• The Allure of the Counterintuitive
• Dr. Doolittle Calling
• Ye Olde Blogge Postte
• Aquatic Cognition
• Of Mutant Mice—and Men
• What Your Child Watches When She Watches TV
• Demons Where Once There Were None
• Can Reading Be Unlearned?
• Your Baby Is a Statistician
• Why We Know So Little About High Achievers
• What Toddlers Know They Don’t Know About Plurals
• Derailed By “Who’s On First”
• The Liberal Grammar Fanatic
• Psychology and the Elite College Undergraduate
• Acting Like a Baby
• The Psychology of Playing the Part
• Much Ado About Acting
• Your Brain On Risk
• Big Toddler, Teeny Slide
• When Foreign Words and Native Accents Meet
• What Little Girls Are Made Of
• A Language Without Exact Numbers
• Babies Bamboozled by Numbers
• On the Psychology of Swearing
• Changing the World, If Only in Our Minds
• When the Mind Wanders, the Eyes Stay the Course
• Pilloried Prepositions
• How We Talk to Babies
• American Culture Makes Us Egocentric—Maybe
• So Totally On My Mind
• Little Scribes
• On Word Learning, Incidentally
• The Art of Word Learning
• Dude Sounds Like a Lady
• Language Finds a Way
• Survival of the Thriftiest
• Give Ishmael a Break
• When I See a Monkey Read
• On Drunk Speech
• Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong
• Extreme Empathy
• Does Language Change How We Experience Color?
• These Thoughts Were Made in American English
• Nounsy Nouns and Verbsy Verbs and Little Wugs Eat Ivy
• Golfers, Toothpaste, and How Not to Overthink
• Is the Future of English Bad Science?
• Calling All Psychonarratologists
• The Mind Paused / Not at All
• On Caddy-corner ... Or Whatever That Word Is
• Oprah: 2, Attenborough: 0
• What Prestige Sounds Like
• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sentence
• Should Two Constructions Diverge
• Submissive Sentences
• isthistytelhardtoreed
• What Actually Works
• When Words Are Neighbors
• Spelling and the Mind
• When Rosemary Should Be Rosy and Merry
• When Characters Speak Off the Page
• And I’m Like, Read This!
• The Grammarian Was a He
• The Spaghetti with a Dark Past
• A Cocktail Conundrum
• Nullified
• The Magazine Ran with Ink and Columns
• The Accented Among Us
• If It Talks Like the Truth
• Speech in Action
• Nailing It
• Aliens in the Mind
• The Lion, the Yurt, and the Xbox
• The Elephant in the Room
• Parse This
• Tyler Is Setting Up a Tent
• When the Upshot Is a Downer
• This Column Needs Edited