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on Aug 19, 2011
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Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden m...
Until I'd read that I'd not realised what a powerful play the royal we is. It's an attempt to craft the identity of the listener into the project of the speaker. In its own way a hack - it makes for our reasoning via our language processing.
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