Wow, was recommended this Ted Talk by my Daygame Coach back in 2014 and only re-watched the programme and saw his comment on watching this talk!! I am so glad I did and will defintely be using this when talking with others and especially women. Cheers Yad and especial appaluse to James Pennebaker.
As a forensic handwriting analyst who has also studied statement analysis, I find this material relates well to the way people write. For example, the way the single personal pronoun I is written (its shape, size), the distance it is placed from other letters, the direction it leans, in the context of that handwriting all reveal a great deal about the person.
I suggest everyone to research Dr. Sarno's work, about the Mind + Body. He's been touting this for decades. Also, look up the film "All The Rage", playing in some theaters now.
Function words and their relevance to Autism (Theory of Mind) Has anyone discussed the relevance of function words and Autis??? Given Dr Pennebakers insistence that function words are "social" and disclose how people are relating, it seams incredibly important to ASD and Simon Baron Cohen's Theory of Mind. I haven't been this excited about research since Grad school. If anyone has a direction for me to pursue, I'd be most grateful.
This could be used to determine how suggestible & therefore hypnotisable people are, as to a large degree it's based of personalibilty, & if that's determined by a Pronoun match index, we then have an objective method as to who is more hypnotisable by whom.
I was playing on what he said about the boss and the underling, the boss does not use I or me and the underling does. So, I omitted some pronouns in a yes, a deliberate falsification. Well put. Sometimes you read a story in the New Yorker or Times and they refer to themselves (the writer) that way, so snobby, I thought. It made them seem more objective, though. That's the key, how they are perceived and that gives words power. Perception and influence; powerful tools. I love words, don't you?
I thought it was a brilliant talk, but I can instantly think of many people who do not fit the described rule, quite the reverse in fact. One of many you can check for yourself in film, would be Lord Mountbatten. In describing the history of the WWII in Indonesia and the Pacific, he uses the word "I" so much, that it is hard to imagine that he didn't win the war by himself.
I think context matters here - in recounting personal history heavy ‘I’ use would likely be present in correlation with a sense of personal agency. Active voice for the action man! This is different from the present, more ‘management’ based context highlighted by JP’s examples.
@@TheTrippnotist I don't think you have spent many hours in management meetings. When managing directors are doing badly, some of them will go into it's "all about me speeches". I, I , I.
In IEMT devised by Andrew Austin we pay special attention to pro-nouns and use this work the help with many emotional and identity based issues. The work is also influenced by David Grove’s work.
As a programming student, I still find it somewhat arbitrary to create programs to monitor text. The only convenience of texting is for rapid communication of direct statements; the backbone of the new business industry. But social conversation from texting has destroy faces, voices, bodies, and even flexible format which is necessary in getting along with other people. I'd rather see the hardware industry bridge that gap than see mediocrity exist where normal people will shy away from the outside in favor of texting. But maybe being owned by industry is the one necessary human mistake that needs to happen in order for that bridge to be built. We may one day program Augmented Intelligence rather than created Artificial Intelligence.
Happened upon this while in search for information on how to write an essay without first person pronouns. This is proving to be a difficult task. Does anyone have any advice?
I am answering too late but there I work ...teachers called a former secretary the 'royal we'...she was bossy, straight, impeccable and super organized...yet she never asked I ask you to..or Do this or that...but she used that pronoun: 'we' because she was in a position of power over the rest of the staff since she was in charge of the whole organization of our institution.
What he misses totally is the subconscious sentences within the paragraphs of language... the subconscious always tells the truth and does not keep secrets or deceive.... it tells you everything in hidden code though very very very small tiny decimal percentage of people can hear the subconscious speak
That's exactly what he's talking about, the words no one gives much thought about, granted there's also patterns like Milton Erickson's analogue marking etc.
The methods used to study group relatioships make me think that "Person of Interest" is more than a TV show. Is Harold Finch's charachter based on James Pennebaker?
how did the story about trauma journaling connect to the rest of the video? people saying I on their journal fared worse? Never made that clear.. great video otherwise
Your use of "this viewer" instead of "I" seemed like a deliberate falsification of your ordinary speech and thought process, a self-conscious affectation. I don't think that is preferable to saying, "I liked this speech!"
6:00 Never seen a guy utter so many words without saying anything of substance. The art of beating around the bush! It's TED! Get to the point already! Gosh! All he does is restate the obvious -- "am" is the present tense. Duh. Tell me something I don't already know. This guy needs the hook or an editor!!! Chuckle-headed verbosity!
