Don’t sound weak. Use negations

Posted by tdmckinlay on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:32AM
from the tips.ariyh.com dept.

https://tips.ariyh.com/p/negations-increase-engagement

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Re:Don’t sound weak. Use negations by fnands on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:02PM (#32651946)

JFC that website makes me want to pluck out my own eyeballs.

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Re:Don’t sound weak. Use negations by monkaiju on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:51PM (#32652500)

WTF was this written by an AI?

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Re:Don’t sound weak. Use negations by kaffeeringe on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:33PM (#32653518)

I learned in linguistics that brains can't think in negations and at first understand the unnegated and then negate it. Popular example: "Don't think of a pink elephant." And you'll think of a pink elephant...

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Re:Don’t sound weak. Use negations by karmakaze on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:04PM (#32656310)

You don't even need to use words. A car that runs off a road into a field has a higher than random chance of hitting the only tree in the field.

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Re:Don’t sound weak. Use negations by karmakaze on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:29PM (#32652249)

> The effect is stronger for people that have a high need for status (e.g. buyers of luxury products or people in high power distance cultures such as China, Egypt, Brazil, and India).

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