Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

Re:Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions ... by Hokusai on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:10PM (#27952491)

Looking at the graphics it seems that the start of the pattern is closer to Reaganomics than Facebook for the English speaking world. For German and Spanish started way later, closer to social media.

So, maybe in the USA it started early and the it spread to other parts of the world thru social media. One way or another it seems important to study the reasons and the effects of such change of language.

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Re:Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions ... by malandrew on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:31PM (#27953103)

One thing to consider is that cable TV with many channels proliferated 1-2 decades earlier in the US than most other countries. We had 40+ channels and the resultant social splintering of interests much earlier as a result. It wasn't until satellite TV became a thing that many parts of the world could get more than a handful of over the air channels.

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Re:Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions ... by Izkata on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:22AM (#27957016)

This first big spike is labeled 1999, that's probably Y2K.

Then came 9/11, then MySpace launched in 2003.

Reaganomics was the early 1980s, not sure how you're seeing it as closer to the spike than social media.

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Re:Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions ... by lrdswrk00 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:31PM (#27952656)

Social media invented by US industry, that was mutated by Reaganomics.

Interesting.

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