Happiness is largely based on one’s expectations. How wonderful does it feel to accomplish more than you set out in a day? How disappointing is it when another day ends and your to-do list is longer, rather than shorter than it was when the sun rose?   You can’t effectively meet an expectation before it […]

“Structural priming” is the psycholinguistic phrase for how our environment, particularly the media we expose ourselves to, influence the way we write. . . . your brain’s activity in one part of the day shapes it in another, especially when it comes to creating sentences. This is a real phenomenon, described by psycholinguists, who call […]