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If you read the same word – any word – over and over and over and over and OVER again, it takes on an alien quality. It starts to decohere, to look wrong.
So much is known.
What interests me is that some words have that unsettling Lovecraftian quality to begin with. Like "monthslong" or "paean".
To me, at least, one of these words gains a sort of rhythmic aesthetic, not at all unpleasant, if I repeat it until it ought to lose meaning.
#Pseudopsychology refers to #pseudoscientific formulations of #psychology. Although psychology has increasingly become associated with cognitive science in recent times, there is still no general unifying theory of psychology. This makes the demarcation problem in the field more difficult to assess. However, there are some schools of thought and erroneous claims that have been widely rejected within the field today. Psychology has also been applied to numerous fields and occupations, leading it to be rampantly used, misused, and abused by a wide variety of professionals and amateurs alike. The proliferation of pop and pseudopsychology has been a concern for psychologists and those in related fields from very early on, as is evidenced by Joseph Jastrow's debunking of psychological pseudoscience published in 1900.
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